modern times. In 1958, surrealist painter Leonora Carrington painted Assurbanipal Abluting Harpies, an oil on canvas at the Israel Museum depicting Ashurbanipal...

capturing Memphis as well as a number of the royal family. 669 BC: Assurbanipal succeeds his father Esarhaddon as king of Assyria. 669 BC: Argos defeats...

Greek-chronicled solar eclipse. 647 BC — King Assurbanipal of Assyria sacks Susa. c. 647 BC — The wall panel Assurbanipal and his Queen in the garden, from the...

pp. 290–296. "Rassam cylinder British Museum". The British Museum. "Assurbanipal's Library" Archived 2012-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Knowledge and Power...

Urmahlullu relief from a bathroom in the palace of Assurbanipal in Ninevah...

replaced by that of the Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language: "Assurbanipal King of Assyria" Aššur-bani-habal šar mat Aššur KI Same characters, in...

Babylonian creation epic, the Enūma Eliš, taken from the library of Assurbanipal (c. 630 BCE) but which is about 500 years older. In this story, he was...

it would remain one of the most important objectives in the mind of Assurbanipal. In 648 BC, the Elamite city of Susa was razed to the ground; it was...

mentioned in Assyrian sources as a king of Moab during the reign of Assurbanipal, who was king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire between 669–631 BCE. Knauf &...

there is archaeological evidence of his water engineering. His grandson Assurbanipal pictured the mature garden on a sculptured wall panel in his palace....