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THE LIBRARY OF ANCIENT WISDOM
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When a team of Victorian archaeologists dug into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge ever seen: the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, seventh century BCE ruler of a huge swathe of the ancient Middle East known as Mesopotamia. After his death, vengeful rivals burned Ashurbanipals library to the ground - yet the texts, carved on clay tablets, were baked and preserved by the heat. Buried for millennia, the tablets were written in cuneiform: the first written language in the...Status: With stock
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DetailsPENGUIN BOOKS (UK)
2026
448 Pages
Format: Rústica
ISBN: 9780141997506
Language: INGLÉSCategory: Old history
