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Nineveh’s sacking in 612 BCE destroyed part of Ashurbanipal’s library and preserved another part in fire-hardened clay.
In 689 BCE, Sennacherib destroyed Babylon and diverted a canal to flood the city’s ruins.
Ashurbanipal’s library preserved the Epic of Gilgamesh, including its flood tablet and striking similarities to Genesis.
Were the Hanging Gardens actually at Nineveh? Stephanie Dalley of the University of Oxford proposed this possibility.
Ashurbanipal appears with a writing stylus even in lion-hunt reliefs depicting warfare, royal life, and severed enemy heads.
Ashurbanipal was a capable, popular administrator, yet his reign’s images portray salting earth, abusing captives, and humiliating defeated rulers.
Sennacherib named Esarhaddon heir over an older son. After Sennacherib’s murder, Esarhaddon defeated his brother’s forces and seized the throne.
Ashurbanipal encouraged Babylonians to revolt against Shamash-shum-ukin, who allied with Lydia and Elam before Babylon endured a horrific two-year siege.
The Assyrian people still exist today, with an estimated 3 million to 5 million identifying as Assyrian.
Only a fraction of Ashurbanipal’s library has been reconstructed and translated. Most of its knowledge remains buried.
Ashurbanipal ordered temples and palaces across his empire to send their texts to Nineveh.
Ashurbanipal created one of the oldest systematically organized libraries and the world’s largest collection of Assyrian texts.
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