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An Ancient Library Contains Knowledge We Still Can't Explain | Nineveh

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Long before books, libraries, and the internet, there was Nineveh.

Buried in the ruins of an ancient Assyrian capital, archaeologists uncovered more than 30,000 cuneiform tablets from the library of King Ashurbanipal — one of the greatest collections of ancient knowledge ever found.

Inside were royal records, myths, medical texts, astronomical observations, mathematical ideas, flood…