#ashurbanipal
- Assurbanipal — The last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (reigning from 668 to c. 627 BC), famous both for his brutal military successes and his high level of erudition; he ordered the collection and copying of all literary, scientific, and religious texts across Mesopotamia, establishing the famous Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, where the Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered.