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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.
The Monuments of Nineveh., John Murray (London) First series, 1849, 100 plates, From Drawings Made on the Spot. Second series, 1853, 71 plates, A Second Series [..] including Bas-Reliefs from the Palace of Sennacherib and Bronzes from the Ruins of Nimroud. From drawings made on the spot during a second expedition to Assyria.
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]
John Brinkman revises Grayson's reading of ABC 1 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine in: "The Babylonian Chronicle revisited" in T. Abusch, J. Huehnergard, P. Steinkeller (eds.): Lingering over Words. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern literature in Honor of William L. Moran (1990 Atlanta; ISBN 978-1-55540-502-1).
The library contained an expansive arched hall which consisted of a reading room, stack room, and a rotunda for lectures. [22] The library was large measuring 81 feet (25 m) in length by 77 feet (23 m) in width. [22] Oblong alcoves held wooden cabinets along walls of which the manuscripts were maintained. [22]
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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 ...
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