Ashurbanipal
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Government and Politics, Education, Royalty, Rulers, Nobility, Military History, Architecture
- Subcategories: Kings, Queens, Kingdoms, Monarchy
- Curriculum: Middle Eastern History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Areas of Achievement: Government, architecture, art, and literature Assyrian king (r. 669-627 b.c.e.){$I[g]Middle East;Ashurbanipal}{$I[g]Assyria;Ashurbanipal} The last great king of ancient Assyria, Ashurbanipal lived within a generation of its annihilation. Inside his exquisitely decorated palace, he brought together a magnificent library of cuneiform writing on clay tablets, which included materials from twenty-five hundred years of achievement by Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.
Early Life
Ashurbanipal...
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