"The great religious works of the ns are known to us from documents which do not date from an earlier period than the seventh century In the palaces that were unearthed at , there were found, scattered throusjh the mounds of earth, thousands of s written in the , and in many cases with colophons bearing the name of and the statement that he had caused them to be included in his library. This monarch reigned from 669 to about 625, and, though one of the last kings to occupy the , he made strenuous efforts to preserve the ancient literature of and Assyria. His scribes visited specially the ancient cities and temples in the south, and made copies of literary compositions of all classes which they found there. These they collected and arranged in his palace at Nineveh, and it is from them that the greater part of our knowledge of is derived."
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Leonard William King
, , (8 December 1869 – 20 August 1919) was an English archaeologist, , translator, and professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at . He was Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1913 until his death.
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