Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History Art Essentials and numerology

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Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History Art Essentials and numerology448 pages, paperback The story of the ancient worlds most spectacular library, and the civilization that created it When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen: the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, seventh century BCE ruler of a huge swathe of the ancient Middle East known as Mesopotamia. After his death, vengeful rivals burned