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The Library at Nineveh
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f47cae8e-9d94-448c-96c1-1336c7d556f8/3A3015BC-8A75-4115-9CBA-7BBCA094AB82/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080515.shtml" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080515.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080515.shtml"><DIV> In 1849 a young English adventurer called Henry Layard started digging into a small hill. It was on the banks of the River Tigris in Northern Iraq and underneath it was the ancient city of Nineveh. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080515.shtml"><DIV> Layard found extraordinary things - wonderful carved reliefs, ancient palace rooms and great statues of winged bulls. He also found a collection of clay tablets, broken up, jumbled around and sitting on the floor of a toilet. It was the remnants of a library and although Layard didn’t know it at the time, it was one of the greatest archaeological finds ever made. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20080515.shtml"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bbc.co.uk/img/5FD39B5A-B565-48F2-B437-6415E806C12E" alt="King Ashurbanipal, who built the Library at Nineveh, as a High Priest" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk/essentials/assurbanipalslibrary/" href="http://knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk/essentials/assurbanipalslibrary/" style="font-size: 11px;">knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk/essentials/assurbanipalslibrary/">Collectively, the Nineveh tablets are rather loosely known as <A title="Assurbanipal, king of Assyria (669-c.630)" href="http://knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk/essentials/assurbanipal/">Assurbanipal's</A> Library, after the monarch who ruled Nineveh in 668-c.630 BC</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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