Before and After the Nineveh Library..

Other great libraries existed before Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh..
King Hammurabi built a library in the Babylonian city of Borsippa a
thousand years before Ashurbanipal..

Rameses II founded a famous library in the Egypitian city of Thebes
more than 700 years before Ashurbanipal..
But the diversity of information and the sheer number of records earn
Ashurbanipal's library the reputation of being...
"the greatest of the ancient world."

It was 350 years before another library surpassed it..
The great library was bulit by Ptolemy I Soter,
one of Alexanders the Great's generals, about the year 300 B.C.E..

It was constructed in the Egyptian seaport city of Alexandria,
and it's librarians endeavored to collect copies of most of the writings
in the inhabited world...

According to tradition, it was at Alexandria that about 70 scholars started
transalating the Hebrew portion of the Scriptures into Greek..
This translation came to be called the Greek Septuagint and was used
extensively by early Christians...