Library of Ashurbanipal

Library of Ashurbanipal - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BCE, including texts in various languages. Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh. Read more on Wikipedia

type: library
date from: 7th century BCE

Source: en.wikipedia.org