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In Our Time: The Library at Nineveh

Series 1, episode 0

Melvyn Bragg is joined by Eleanor Robson, Andrew George and Karen Radner to discuss one of the greatest architectural finds ever recorded. Dating from the 7th century BC, the library at Nineveh was a treasure house of clay tablets recording the science, religion, politics and literature of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires. It offered an unprecedented sense of ancient life in the Middle East and contained perhaps the oldest story in the world, the Epic of Gilgamesh.