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| | 640s BC 6489 Golevka Guides, Tutorials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Assyria a country named after its original capital city, Asshur on the Tigris, was originally a colony of Babylonia, a king Ashurbanipal There were several Assyrian kings named Assur-bani-pal also spelled Asurbanipal, Assurbanipal (most commonly), Ashurbanipal and Ashshurbanipal, but the best known was Assurbanipal IV. |
 | | Ashurbanipal or Assurbanipal (reigned 668 627 BCE), the son of Esarhad founds library, which includes our earliest complete copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh Deluge tablet of the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian The Epic of Gilgamesh is from Babylonia, dating from long after the time that king Gilgamesh was supposed to have ruled. |
 | | It was based on earlier Sumerian legends of Gilgamesh. |
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