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| + | The last great monarch of Assyria, Ashurbanipal, created a great library, Ashurbanipal's great library, witch still contains over 30,000 tablets that tell us about Assyrian culture, myth, and literature. The library was not the first, but it was one of the largest that is still around today. The library was divide into categories like poetry, stories, and government files like the libraries of today. | ||
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Return to *History 8 Mesopotamia Notes
15. How do we know about Mesopotamian culture, myth and literature?
The last great monarch of Assyria, Ashurbanipal, created a great library, Ashurbanipal's great library, witch still contains over 30,000 tablets that tell us about Assyrian culture, myth, and literature. The library was not the first, but it was one of the largest that is still around today. The library was divide into categories like poetry, stories, and government files like the libraries of today.
http://www2.sjs.org/Beniretto/Mesopotamia/textcomputerexercise.html#Hittites
http://web.utk.edu/~giles/ (info and picture)
