The Library of Ashurbanipal (Paperback)

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Paperback. The Library of Ashurbanipal: Vanished Tablets of the First Empire of Knowledge by Peter H. Fairbanks takes readers deep into one of the most extraordinary and least understood achievements of the ancient world: the creation and disappearance of humanity's first great library. In the seventh century BCE, the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal assembled thousands of clay tablets at Nineveh, gathering myths, scientific texts, omens, rituals, medical manuals, and royal records from across Mesopotamia. This vast archive preserved the intellectual inheritance of Sumer, Akkad, and Babylon, shaping how early civilizations understood the gods, the stars, disease, history, and kingship itself. When Nineveh fell in 612 BCE, fire, violence, and chaos consumed the city. Some tablets survived, baked hard by the flames and buried beneath collapsed palaces. Many more vanished. Ancient inventories, colophons, and inscriptions make clear that entire series once existed that have never been recovered. Lost epics, missing omen cycles, vanished chronicles, and unknown scientific works haunt the edges of what scholars can reconstruct today. Their absence raises a compelling question: what happened to the rest of Ashurbanipal's library? Tracing the story from the king's education and obsession with knowledge through the rise of his scribal network and the catastrophic fall of the Assyrian Empire, Fairbanks follows the tablets across centuries of destruction, dispersal, and rediscovery. He examines early excavations at Nineveh, reports of sealed chambers and blocked corridors, and the evidence for regional libraries scattered across Assyria and Babylonia. Drawing on archaeological records, museum collections, ancient chronicles, and modern scientific surveys, the book explores where missing tablets may have gone and whether some archives could still lie buried beneath the great mounds of Mesopotamia. The narrative extends into the modern era, where war, looting, and the illicit antiquities trade have further obscured the fate of Mesopotamian texts. At the same time, new technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, satellite imaging, and digital reconstruction are transforming the search for lost knowledge. Fragment by fragment, scholars are beginning to glimpse the true scale of what once existed and what may yet be recovered. Blending careful historical scholarship with measured speculation, The Library of Ashurbanipal: Vanished Tablets of the First Empire of Knowledge offers a gripping exploration of humanity's earliest written legacy and the mysteries that still surround it. Ideal for readers fascinated by ancient history, lost libraries, archaeology, and unsolved historical enigmas, this book reveals how the first empire of knowledge was built, how it was shattered, and why its missing voices still matter today. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

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Titre
The Library of Ashurbanipal (Paperback)
Auteur
Peter H. Fairbanks
Éditeur
Independently Published
Année de publication
2025
État de l'article
new
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9798278580607
Série
Livre 45 sur 50: The Shadow Vault

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