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The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at the British Museum in London England #219558767
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The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BC, including texts in various languages. Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh.Ashurbanipal`s Library gives modern historians information regarding people of the ancient Near East. In his Outline of History, H. G. Wells calls the library `the most precious source of historical material in the world.`The materials were found in the archaeological site of Kouyunjik ancient Nineveh, capital of Assyria in northern Mesopotamia. The site is in modern-day northern Iraq, near the city of Mosul.
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