Creation of Ashurbanipal's Royal Library at Nineveh
668 BCE
Ashurbanipal collects over 30,000 cuneiform tablets in Nineveh, creating antiquity's first systematic library.
Sources and References
Julian Reade, Assyrian Sculpture (British Museum Press)
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