The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal in Mosul. Baghdad -- It does not seem that the 3,000-year-old Royal Library of Ashurbanipal in Mosul will reopen soon, even though international institutions and ...

Almost nothing can more completely foil a plan than a war followed by a protracted occupation. But despite an impressive array of obstacles, the University of Mosul in Iraq is going ahead with an ...

In 1849, English explorer Austen Henry Layard discovered a series of clay tablets in the ruins of Nineveh. Once upon a time, Nineveh was a flourishing city and the capital of the mighty Assyrian ...

The Assyrian Australian Association has been working hard to revive the Ashurbanipal Library which will be officially launched on 5 May, 2022. Ramsin Warda is the head of the Ashurbanipal Library ...

Iraq is to launch a campaign to "revive" the Ashurbanipal Library, the earliest systematically collected and catalogued library in the ancient world. Excavated by U.K. archaeologists in the mid-19th ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors. A room in Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh with ...

Today Ashurbanipal is not a household name, but in any account of the ancient Near East, he and his dynasty loom large. The last successful ruler of the Neo-Assyrian empire (911-609BC), Ashurbanipal ...

King Ashurbanipal ruled over Assyria between 668 and 631 BC, a period when the empire was the largest and most powerful in the world. At its peak, Ashurbanipal's empire stretched from Egypt all the ...

The story of King Ashurbanipal, who ruled over Assyria between 668 and 631 BC, is set to be showcased in a new exhibition at the British Museum in London. The exhibition features more than 200 ...