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I think this is the person who has ever fascinated me the most, even though he is a great man, not a great man, the truth is that I can't understand how the hell he did everything he did.
Ashurbanipal's intense interest in collecting divination texts was one of his driving motivations in collecting works for his library. His original motive may have been to "gain possession of rituals and incantations that were vital to maintain his royal power."
Library of Ashurbanipal
Plate from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe by Thomas Wright, 1750.