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Asshurbanipal and I ...
I was listening to the In Our Time podcast this morning and realised that I had a lot in common with Asshurbanipal.
As the last great king of ancient Assyria his life’s work was to gather together the knowledge of the time and have it recorded in his great library at Ninevh.
In those times they weren’t adverse to chaining scholars to desks and getting them to write out all they knew in order to have it recorded for all time. Luckily time has moved on and things are no longer recorded on clay tablets.
Of course technology has moved on from Cuneiform to Wikis but getting the information is still troublesome.
Perhaps I need to invest in some desks with chains …
