Library of Ashurbanipal

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The Library of Ashurbanipal was an ancient royal archive in Nineveh that preserved thousands of cuneiform tablets, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, making it one of the earliest and most important libraries in history.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Ashurbanipal library tablets	1

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Epic of Gilgamesh → discoveredIn → Library of Ashurbanipal ⓘ

Assyria → hasLibrary → Library of Ashurbanipal ⓘ

Hormuzd Rassam → notableDiscovery → Library of Ashurbanipal ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ashurbanipal library tablets