jan 1, 650 BC - The first library was built in Niveah

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The oldest surviving royal library in the world is located in Nineveh, and it had over 30,000 cuneiform tablets inside.
The library is telling us about the place where history “began”. This is because cuneiform is the first written language in the world, and it started in Mesopotamia.

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