The Royal Library of Ashurbanupal The Library which was in the great city of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria now Iraq contained a huge amount of written works and is famous for leaving behind the cuneiform tablets.

In ca 600 BC, Nineveh fell to a coalition of Babylonians (Persians) and Scythians (Iranians) and burnt. The clay tablets in the library were baked hard and have survived for posterity. They were discovered in the 19 th Century

The Royal Library of Ashurbanupal the Library which was in the great city of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria now Iraq contained a huge amount of written works and is famous for leaving behind the cuneiform tablets. The first written account of the Biblical Flood is described quite clearly on the Flood Tablet from the Epic of Gilgamesh

The Royal Library of Ashurbanupal A significant case of 'book burning' was the destruction of the Library of Ashurbanipal (Library of Ninevah). In what is now Iraq, Ashurbanupal resided in the great city of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. The library contained a huge amount of written works and is famous for leaving behind the cuneiform tablets. The first written account of the Biblical Flood is described quite clearly on the 'Flood Tablet' from the Epic of Gilgamesh (translated text). It was one of thousands of clay tablets that were discovered in the late-19th century in the burnt ruins of Nineveh.. Alongside the tablets, scholars expect to have found papyrii and scrolls from conquests and neighbours, but these didn't survive the flames or the seasons of time. In around 600 BC, Nineveh was overcome by a coalition of Babylonians (Persians) and Scythians (Iranians) and put to the torch. An estimated texts were burnt, but the act of burning baked these tablets and rendered them almost future-proof.Library of AshurbanipalFlood Tablet(translated text)