[MHGinTN]

Question for you: I'm in a bit of a confused state; Ashurbanipal's kingdom was destroyed by the Medes and Babylonians in 612 BC, during which Ashurbanipal's library at Ninevah was destroyed; were the cuneiform tablets in his library collected from the ancient Sumerian collection and is that what made up the library of Sippar?... Wouldn't the tablets therefore be much older than 2 - 3000 years old?

[Fifth Business]

Question for you: I'm in a bit of a confused state; Ashurbanipal's kingdom was destroyed by the Medes and Babylonians in 612 BC, during which Ashurbanipal's library at Ninevah was destroyed; were the cuneiform tablets in his library collected from the ancient Sumerian collection and is that what made up the library of Sippar?... Wouldn't the tablets therefore be much older than 2 - 3000 years old?

The Ninevah texts are in the British Museum because Ninevah was excavated long ago. Everything dug up in Iraq since the 1920s has gone into this museum. The Sippar texts talked about in this article were found relatively recently. Sippar was part of Babylonia, whose civilization lasted longer than Assyria in the North. The Akkadians of both Assyria and Babylonia continued to use Sumerian as their academic, official, and religious language, just like Western civilization continued to use Latin long after the demise of the Roman Empire. Does that answer your question or just hit around it?