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Something different, I’m currently reading “I am Ashurbanipal, King of the World”. This is a beautifully illustrated “coffee-table” book which accompanies a major exhibition of the same name that’s recently opened at the British Museum in London. Ashurbanipal (not the most modest of men!) was king of Assyria (modern-day Iraq) in the 7th-century BC, and the British Museum has the finest collection in the world of wall carvings, cuneiform tablets, and other artefacts from his palace in the city of Nineveh (and elsewhere). The exhibition, which I saw last week, is fabulous, and the book adds a great deal of interesting historical material as well as containing beautiful photographs of all the objects on display. The sort of book that definitely wouldn’t work as an ebook!
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