Even when out hunting Ashurbanipal does not forget his identity as a master of scholarly knowledge one relief shows him seizing a lion by the throat with a stylus tucked into his belt. The king of Assyria never went anywhere without a pen.
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The Assyrians were really not so different from us Among the most striking and memorable exhibits in the British Museum are the Assyrian reliefs depicting the royal hunt. These huge panels show the king, Ashurbanipal, shooting, spearing and stabbing a...

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