When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

He was succeeded by Ashurbanipal. Ashurbanipal built a new palace, now known as the Northern Palace, and decorated it with finely carved stone reliefs, including the famous carvings now in the ...

Pictured from top: a relief from Ashurbanipal's palace showing him in a chariot; a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh, telling the story of a great flood; the Royal Game of Ur board game ...