古代亚述是公元前15世纪至公元前605年的一个奴隶制国家,位于底格里斯河的中游,其版图在全盛时期曾经东达伊朗高原,西到地中海。亚述的历代国王都十分重视档案工作,他们在阿淑尔、卡拉赫和杜尔——沙鲁金等城市内都建有收藏泥板档案的档案馆。尼尼微是亚述晚期的首都,在今伊拉克境内摩苏尔城附近。亚述国王阿树尔巴尼帕尔在这里建造了举世闻名的尼尼微档案图书馆。公元前612年,米坦人和伽勒底人攻陷尼尼微时,仅仅推倒了宫墙和房屋,而未理会它里面收藏 Ancient Assyria is a slavery state from the 15th century BC to 605 BC, located in the middle of the Tigris, the territory of the heyday of the east of the Iranian plateau, west to the Mediterranean. The Assyrian kings all attach great importance to archival work. They have archives that hold clay files in cities such as Ahshir, Karachi and Douro-Sarugin. Nineveh is the late Assyrian capital, now in the vicinity of Mosul in Iraq. Assyrian King Ah Barnabal built here the world-famous Nineveh Archives. In 612 BC, when the Mesantites and the Galileans attacked Nineveh, they merely tossed the palace walls and houses without regard to its collection