Divided Kingdom

Ashurbanipal

Dates
690–633 BC
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The son of Esarhaddon, a great ruler of the kingdom of Assyria in its last glory years, best known for his great library of thousands of clay tablets in Nineveh which gives the best information on Assyrian history. They are now in the British Museum.

Ashurbanipal
The famous library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh

Images

Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal on a chariot during a lion hunt. Neo-Assyrian relief depicting a lion hunt (British Museum), Artaxiad

Related events

  1. Esarhaddon 711–669 BC
  2. Ashurbanipal Defeats Elam 645 BC