Enûma Eliš
Most of the traditional Mesopotamian stories and tales known today, such as the "Epic of Gilgamesh", the "Enûma Eliš" (the Babylonian creation myth), "Erra", the "Myth of Etana" and the "Epic of Anzu", only survived until the modern era because they were included in Ashurbanipal's library. The library covered the entire spectrum of Ashurbanipal's literary interests and also included folk tales (such as "The Poor Man of Nippur", a predecessor of one of the tales in "One Thousand and One Nights"), handbooks and scientific texts.