Library of Ashurbanipal
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Library of Ashurbanipal
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Esarhaddon selected Ashurbanipal as heir c. 673. The selection of Ashurbanipal bypassed the elder son Shamash-shum-ukin. Perhaps in order to avoid future rivalry, Esarhaddon designated Shamash-shum-ukin as the heir to Babylonia. The two brothers jointly acceded to their respective thrones after Esarhaddon's death in 669, though Shamash-shum-ukin wa... See more
Ashurbanipal
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Library contains several texts, which were likely written in Greek (possibly as early as the first century) and later translated into Coptic—an Egyptian language related to Greek and ancient Egyptian.
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Around 300BC, one of the most ambitious projects of all time was undertaken in the Greek-Egyptian city of Alexandria. The Ptolemies wanted to create the intellectual capital of the world, and so they established the famous LIbrary of Alexandria. This was not the first library, but what made it interesting was their extremely ambitious goal. They wa... See more
Dmitri Brereton (dkb) • To Organize The World's Information
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Library of Babel
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Gods such as the fertility goddess, the sky god and the god of medicine took centre stage when plants and animals lost their ability to speak, and the gods’ main role was to mediate between humans and the mute plants and animals.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Assyrians were defeated by the Babylonians in 612, and the last remnants of the Assyrian army lost…
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Marc Zvi Brettler PhD • How to Read the Bible
“Babel’s a city in Babylon, right?” “It was a legendary city,” the Librarian says. “Babel is a Biblical term for Babylon. The word is Semitic; Bab means gate and El means God, so Babel means ‘Gate of God.’ But it is probably also somewhat onomatopoeic, imitating someone who speaks in an incomprehensible tongue. The Bible is full of puns.”