While I was out for my walk this morning, I listened to this In Our Time episode about the Library of Nineveh. King Ashurbanipal seems to have been a book hoarder collecting everything the Babylonians ever wrote down (in cuneiform on clay tablets or wax-covered boards), and more. It involves Gilgamesh and scholars dressed as fish (and some in chains). #books #history #library https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b7r71