Perhaps the most famous literary work to survive from ancient Mesopotamia is the Epic of Gilgamesh, a story that survives today because of the copies discovered in Ashurbanipal's library. Other ...

Selena Wisnom walks the shelves of King Ashurbanipal’s library, revealing what the books tell us about the ideas circulating in 7th-century BC Mesopotamia ...

Nebi Yunus, according to Muslim tradition, houses the tomb of the prophet Jonah. Kuyunjik is where Ashurbanipal assembled his library of cuneiform tablets. Excavated between the 1840s and 1930s, this ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, ... Later, Ashurbanipal established Mesopotamia’s first organized library in Nineveh.

Nebi Yunus, according to Muslim tradition, houses the tomb of the prophet Jonah. Kuyunjik is where Ashurbanipal assembled his library of cuneiform tablets. Excavated between the 1840s and 1930s, this ...

Smith had been deciphering a series of clay tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, a text today known as the Epic of Gilgamesh, regarded as the world’s oldest known literary work ...

Van Buylaere, G. – Luukko, M., Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals: Glossaries and Indices (Ancient Magic and Divination 8/4), Leiden – Boston: Brill 2019. An explanatory volume on ...

By 2000 B.C., it thrived as an affluent port of roughly 60,000 people who enjoyed a level of wealth unknown in other Mesopotamian cities. Its markets pulled in trade from all over the ancient ...

Ancient treasure: An exhibition showcasing 170 treasures from Ancient Mesopotamia will run from January 30 to May 13 at the Museum of History, including this ... witness the glamour of the Assyrian ...