Literature

1. Assyrians used cuneiform clay tablet from the 600's BC
 * Assyrian Literature:**
 * First used by the Babylonians
 * Wedge-shaped symbols on clay tablets
 * writings contained religion, literature, history, medicine, law.
 * These tablets were collected in huge libraries by Assyrian Kings.
 * Assyrian paintings usually depicted gory battle scenes, these paintings were part of the proapaganda
 * The anchient of Assyria language was dialect a of the Akkadian language, the neo-assyrian period's language was aramaic, and summerian.

(above) cuneiform tablet

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