Selena Wisnom

The story of the ancient world's most spectacular library, and the civilisation that created it. When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen—the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, seventh century BCE ruler of a huge swathe of the ancient Middle...

The story of the ancient world's most spectacular library, and the civilization that created it When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen- the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, seventh century BCE ruler of a huge swathe of the ancient...