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  2. Library of Ashurbanipal - Wikipedia

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    Nineveh was destroyed in 612 BCE by a coalition of Babylonians, Scythians and Medes, an ancient Iranian people. It is believed that during the burning of the palace, a great fire must have ravaged the library, causing the clay cuneiform tablets to become partially baked. [17] This potentially destructive event helped preserve the tablets.

  3. Nineveh - Wikipedia

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    Nineveh was an important junction for commercial routes crossing the Tigris on the great roadway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, thus uniting the East and the West, it received wealth from many sources, so that it became one of the greatest of all the region's ancient cities, [13] and the last capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

  4. Ashurbanipal - Wikipedia

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    After he became king, using the massive resources now at his disposal, created the world's first "universal" library in Nineveh. [63] The resulting Library of Ashurbanipal is regarded to have been by far the most extensive library in ancient Assyria [108] and the first systematically organized library in the world. [104]

  5. Austen Henry Layard - Wikipedia

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    He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Most of his finds are now in the British Museum. He made a large amount of money from his ...

  6. List of destroyed libraries - Wikipedia

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    Nineveh was destroyed in 612 BCE by a coalition of Babylonians, Scythians and Medes, an ancient Iranian people. It is believed that during the burning of the palace, a great fire must have ravaged the library, causing the clay cuneiform tablets to become partially baked. This potentially destructive event helped preserve the tablets.

  7. Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Nineveh, also called the fall of Nineveh is conventionally dated between 613 and 611 BC, with 612 BC being the most supported date. After Assyrian defeat at the battle of Assur, an allied army which combined the forces of Medes and the Babylonians besieged Nineveh and sacked 750 hectares of what was, at that time, one of the greatest cities in the world.

  8. Library of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    The most famous library of the ancient Near East was the Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, founded in the seventh century BC by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (ruled 668–c. 627 BC). [ 14 ] [ 3 ] A large library also existed in Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II ( c. 605– c. 562 BC). [ 15 ]

  9. Category:Nineveh - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to the ancient city of Nineveh and its depictions. It was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia , located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire , as well as the largest city in the world for ...