Ashurbanipal

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

king of Assyria

c. 685 BC – 631 BC · 54 years · Nineveh · Middle East

Last great king of Assyria; his library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh preserved the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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Portrait: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Contemporaries around the world

Middle East

Nebuchadnezzar II — king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, 43 years younger

The world in their lifetime

c. 650 BC Library of Ashurbanipal — aged 35, Middle East