Ashurbanipal
Americannoun
noun
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By stripping others of their knowledge, Ashurbanipal made sure his opponents had less access to history, which meant uncertainty in predicting the future.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2020
Or a telling insight into a political mind: Boris Johnson was criticised recently for not washing his lucky socks, emblazoned with a ruler of the Neo-Assyrian empire King Ashurbanipal, often enough.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2019
Dust settled over the shattered library of the dead King Ashurbanipal, and over his carefully transcribed copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2015
Inside the tomb is a sarcophagus that Colt opens, causing him to psychically link to Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, the franchises’ new Mummy.
From Forbes ● Oct. 30, 2014
Even in the last days of the cultured and illustrious Ashurbanipal the outlying provinces of Assyria became independent.
From Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) by Landman, Isaac
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