A korrentour readingWhat is a korrent?
The Babylonians did not destroy Ashurbanipal's library; they carted it home, and what is left at Nineveh is the leftovers.
Drawn from what Irving Finkel said
A korrentour readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Irving Finkel said
Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.
Assyriologist at the British Museum
But they wouldn’t destroy the library because it was the giant brain from which the Assyrians ran a world empire, and it had all the knowledge in the world. They destroyed that? They spoke the same language, they had the same writing system. They’d have taken them all safely home, cart after cart after cart.
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Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.