To the height of a foot or more from the floor they were entirely filled with them; some entire, but the greater part broken into many fragments, probably by the falling in of the upper part of the building. A picture began to form of Nineveh as an emerging cultural powerhouse under Ashurbanipal: In the mid-seventh century B.C., the king sought to make his capital a center of learning to rival Babylon to the south. There may have been as many as four libraries in Nineveh: one in each palace and two more in the nearby temples of Nabu (god of wisdom) and Ishtar (the great goddess of love and war).
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Published at: 2026-01-21 00:00:00
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