NinMed makes available for the first time the world’s most standardised, structured and systematised corpus of medical literature prior to Galen: the „Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia“ from the library of Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (669-c.630 BC).

The project is funded by a Wellcome Research Resources Grant, with the title „Introducing Assyrian Medicine: healthcare fit for a king“ (220149/Z/20/Z), 2020-2023.

NinMed benefits from resources developed by the Ashurbanipal Library Project, and the BabMed project.

On December 10, 2021 NinMed was mentioned in a Times’ article, written by Sara Tor: “Assyrians couldn’t face the bald truth 2,600 years ago. The secrets of clay tablets, thought to be the world’s first encyclopaedia for medicine, are being revealed at last – including a bizarre and complex remedy for hair loss.”