History of Libraries in the Eldest Civilization States
Keywords:
Ashurbanipal library, pictography, cuneiform, poem, archives, Anu, Nergal, Enlil, Ennana, Ea, Nannar, Marduk, Nabu, Borsippa, Sippar, fresco, Nineveh, Kuden, NaburionAbstract
This article describes the invention of writing on ceramic tablets by the Sumerians in the III millennium BC, the use of writing in the Akkadian, Assyrian, Phoenician, Urartian countries of that time. In the 24th century BC, the Sumerian state became a strong centralized monarchy, and detailed inscriptions on ceramic tablets have survived.
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