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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This article concerns the period 629 BC – 620 BC. c. 627 BC—Death of Assurbanipal, king of Assyria; he is succeeded by Assur-etel-ilani. 627 BC—Creation...

Mesopotamian literary texts. They include: George Smith (1871). History of Assurbanipal, translated from the cuneiform inscriptions. George Smith (1875). Assyrian...

Aššur, and Arbela (modern Erbil). During the reign of the Assyrian king Assurbanipal, Ishtar rose to become the most important and widely venerated deity...