Thanks to a project backed by the Lombardy Region, Milan’s Ambrosiana Library has digitised an important collection of Arabic ...

After his death, vengeful rivals burned Ashurbanipal’s library to the ground – yet the texts, carved on clay tablets, were baked and preserved by the heat. Buried for millennia, the tablets ...

A question was proposed, answerable only by "yes" or "no". Thus, in March 651BC, Ashurbanipal, at war with his brother, asked, "Will the Elamites join the war?" "The entrails were always checked by ...

Libraries have long stood as pillars of knowledge and culture, evolving from ancient archives to modern public institutions.

If you ask Microsoft’s Copilot “What is the significance of an exclamation point behind the word “library,” it dutifully ...