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Among the remains of the great Library of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-c. 630 BC), are clay tablets containing an incredible medical handbook. The "Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia" is the world's most standardised, structured and systematised corpus of medical literature prior to Galen. The tablets were broken into fragments during the sack of Nineveh in 612BC. NinMed is reconstructing these tablets and translating them into English. Our aim is to make the Encyclopaedia freely and fully accessible to all researchers interested in the history of medicine.
Mark Geller is joint听PI with Jonathan Taylor (British Museum) and Irving Finkel (British Museum). 听This is a听Wellcome Funded Research Resources听Award at the British Museum and UCL (353K) to publish online the cuneiform听Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia from the 7th century BCE Royal Library of听Ashurbanipal of Assyria. 听听
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Text听from NinMed: Medicine fit for a king听webpage听from 听at the University of Pennsylvania
Image:听A tablet from the Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia. Treatise VIII Stomach.听. Copyright Trustees of the British Museum.听
