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Several thousand texts consisting of diplomatic archives, census records, literary works and the earliest privately owned libraries yet recovered. [7] Even though the tablets were written in several different languages, the most important aspect of the library were the 1400 texts written in Ugaritic , unknown when the library was discovered in ...
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
[15] [3] The ancient Hittites and Assyrians had massive archives containing records written in many different languages. [15] 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).
An archive in the ancient Roman city of Doliche — located in modern-day Turkey — was set ablaze by a Persian king during a war in 253 A.D, destroying all of the documents inside.
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. [1] [2]Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the history and function of that person or organization.
In 2023 the Ancient Art Archive launched The Mural of America, an initiative to document, share, and provide cultural and scientific context for ten landmark sites across North America. [1] According to Alvarez, the project seeks to "reframe American History to include the first 20,000 plus years of human habitation of the American continents."
The Imperial Library of Constantinople, in the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was the last of the great libraries of the ancient world.Long after the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria and the other ancient libraries, it preserved the knowledge of the ancient Greeks and Romans for almost 1,000 years. [1]
Ten ancient, cone-shaped tombs were unearthed just a stone’s throw away from a bustling street in the heart of Mexico City, officials said. ... Ancient archives burned down 2,000 years ago in ...