How One Library Rewrote Human History 📜 (Part 3)

Buried beneath the ashes of Nineveh in 1853, the Library of Ashurbanipal held over 30,000 clay tablets—laws, omens, astronomy, medicine, and myths that shaped civilizations. George Smith, a self-taught scholar, risked everything to translate them—using the Behistun Inscription as the key. Among his greatest finds? The Flood Tablet—1,000 years older than the biblical story. History remembers him as the man who let the ancients speak again. 🔎