Ashurbanipal's Library of Nineveh

Name: Ashurbanipal's Library of Nineveh
Start: -650
End: -627

Type Event Region West Asia Time c. -650–-627

Around the mid-7th century BCE, Assyrian king Ashurbanipal systematically collected, organized, and sealed clay tablets from Mesopotamia and neighbor…

Timeline

c. -668–-650Nineveh · AssyriaAshurbanipal ordered tablets to be requisitioned and copied from Babylon, Uruk, and elsewhere, concentrating classical Mesopotamian texts and royal archives in the palace quarter of Nineveh.
c. -650–-612Nineveh · AssyriaThe tablets were sealed by subject in palace rooms; 19th-century excavations unearthed precious texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, which became a cornerstone of Assyriology.

Sources

The Libraries of Nineveh — Parpola, Simo
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ashurbanipal https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ashurbanipal