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Early libraries were created to house Qur'anic texts, but also included important early developments in astronomy and mathematics by Arabic scholars. As the Renaissance and later the Enlightenment movements spread throughout Europe, non-religious libraries began to pop-up.

The world's oldest known library was founded sometime in the 7th century B.C. for the “royal contemplation” of the Assyrian ruler Ashurbanipal. Located in Nineveh in modern day Iraq, the site included a trove of some 30,000 cuneiform tablets organized according to subject matter.

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