Ashurbanipal was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Esarhaddon in 668 BC to his own death in 631 BC. The fourth king of the Sargonid dynasty, Ashurbanipal is generally remembered as the last great king of Assyria. Ashurbanipal is most famous for the construction of the Library of Ashurbanipal, the first systematically organized library in the world. The king himself considered the library, a collection of over 30,000 clay tablets with texts of several genres, includ

In the Book of Mormon, Ishmael was buried in a place called Nahom, which many scholars believe corresponds to the Nihm tribal region in Yemen. Near this same region, the name “Ishmael” (as rendered in a South Arabian script) was inscribed on a funerary stela which dates to around Lehi’s time. Watch the full video on our youtube channel! | Scripture Central