All of those clay tablets were thick and heavy. So Ashurbanipal built more and more rooms to keep them in. Soon he had collected thousands and thousands of clay tablets full of stories, prayers, instructions, history, science, medicine, and law. He had created the first library in the world. And Ashurbanipal’s wish came true. Although many of the tablets were destroyed in Assyria’s wars with other countries, some of them still survive today, thousands of years later. They can still be read. And because we have Ashurbanipal’s clay tablets, we remember him as the king who collected books—the
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