What was the Library of Ashurbanipal?
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The Library of Ashurbanipal was a royal collection of texts in ancient Assyria. It is famous for preserving thousands of cuneiform tablets, including the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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The Library of Ashurbanipal was assembled in Nineveh in the 7th century BCE under the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. It contained thousands of tablets covering literature, ritual, medicine, omens, and scholarly texts. The library is one of the most important sources for understanding Mesopotamian civilization because many tablets survived the destruction of Nineveh in 612 BCE. Its collection helped modern scholars recover major works of ancient literature and scholarship.
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