Ever keen to present himself as an intellectual, Ashurbanipal set out to create what became his most important legacy: the great royal library at Nineveh. There he gathered the records of ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

Given the great antiquity of Ashurbanipal's library, we know an extraordinary amount about it, not just of its contents, but the way in which it was managed, in part thanks to many letters that were ...

Given the great antiquity of Ashurbanipal’s library, we know an extraordinary ... letters that were also uncovered from the ruins of Nineveh. We know, for example, that it was formed from ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Library at Nineveh, a treasure house of Assyrian ... ancient palace rooms and great statues of winged bulls. He also found a collection of clay tablets, broken ...

and that we may also regard the united collections of these great kings as the nucleus of the Royal Library at Nineveh.

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last great ...

The great library of the seventh-century B.C. Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, shown in this 1910 illustration, was unearthed in Nineveh in the 1850s, and thousands of tablets found there were ...

had “carried Israel out of its own land” to Nineveh (2 Kings). The book is also a personal confession of a man of experience and great faith who risked his life in order to bury his less ...