The famous library of Ashurbanipal in the royal palace at Nineveh
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The famous library of Ashurbanipal in the royal palace at Nineveh. Ashurbanipal also spelled Assurbanipal or Ashshurbanipal, 668 BC – c. 627 BC. Assyrian king. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
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