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Detailed explanation-1: -Before archaeological discoveries were made in the 19th century, Ashurbanipal was known through later writers as Sardanapalus and was romanticised as the last king of Assyria. One Persian account says that he burnt himself in his palace alongside his concubines, gold and silver, when Nineveh fell under his enemies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Aššur-bāni-apli, meaning “Ashur is the creator of the heir") was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 BCE to his death in 631. He is generally remembered as the last great king of Assyria.

Detailed explanation-3: -He is best known for his vast library at Nineveh, which he himself considered his greatest achievement. Under Ashurbanipal’s reign, the country of Elam (which had long been an unconquerable enemy of Assyria) was destroyed and Urartu, another long-time adversary, was dominated.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Assyrian kings began a new period of expansion in the 9th century bce, and from the mid-8th to the late 7th century bce, a series of strong Assyrian kings-among them Tiglath-pileser III, Sargon II, Sennacherib, and Esarhaddon-united most of the Middle East, from Egypt to the Persian Gulf, under Assyrian rule.

Detailed explanation-5: -King Ashurbanipal of Assyria (r. 669–c. 631 BC) was the most powerful man on earth.