The library of ancient wisdomWhen a team of Victorian archaeologists began to dig into a grassy hill in Iraq, they chanced upon one of the oldest stores of knowledge ever seen: a library. As they excavated, and deciphered the library's forgotten languages, they discovered that it had belonged to Ashurbanipal, a scholar king and conqueror who had ruled the kingdom of Assyria over 2000 years before. After Ashurbanipal's death, vengeful rivals burned his carefully curated library to

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