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Who founded the world's first library?

In the 1846th century, a young London lawyer, Austin Henry Layard, decided to visit Persia and Iraq to find traces of the mysterious, fabulous Nineveh, the capital of the ancient Assyrian kingdom. In XNUMX, he discovered powerful city walls, ruined houses and the remains of the royal palace. It looked like the enemies had captured the city after a fierce resistance, destroyed all the inhabitants without exception, and set fire to the looted houses and the palace. However, the fire did not destroy everything. Layard found many examples of ancient art, but the main treasure was the library.

This ancient library was founded by one of the most educated people of his time, the powerful king Ashurbanipal (668-626 BC). More than 30 thousand clay cuneiform tablets turned out to be in his "book depository"! In order to find the most important documents and literary works, which were already considered cultural monuments at that time, the tsar sent out a whole army of copyist scribes in search of clay "books".

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