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The ancient library at Nineveh held an Epic of Gilgamesh tablet that shocked Victorians by describing what event?
When translated in 1872, this Babylonian flood myth mirrored the biblical story of Noah's Ark, controversial because it predated the Hebrew text.
The biblical prophet Jonah faces a giant sea creature to avoid doing what in the Assyrian city Nineveh?
Jonah attempted to flee to Tarshish because he despised the cruel Assyrians and wanted God to destroy Nineveh rather than forgive its inhabitants.
The Mesopotamian metropolis Nineveh held what global status right before its violent destruction in 612 BCE?
Spanning nearly 2,000 acres, Nineveh housed over 100,000 residents before a coalition of Babylonians and Medes sacked the Assyrian capital.
Assyrian King Ashurbanipal built Nineveh's massive clay tablet library to achieve what primary goal?
Ashurbanipal sent scholars across Mesopotamia to copy or confiscate texts, amassing over 30,000 clay tablets on medicine, magic, and literature.