The Library of Ashurbanipal Launches a Cross-Linked Reference Encyclopedia With Provenance
A page factory over fact-checked articles — each showing its references, coverage note, and any fact-check flags — built to go past Erowid and DMT-Nexus.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — 2026-10-12
The Library of Ashurbanipal Launches a Cross-Linked Reference Encyclopedia With Provenance
A page factory over fact-checked articles — each showing its references, coverage note, and any fact-check flags — built to go past Erowid and DMT-Nexus.
DALLAS–FORT WORTH, TEXAS — The Van Kush Family today launched the Library of Ashurbanipal at https://wiki.soapbox.community, a server-rendered reference encyclopedia that shows each article’s provenance so a reader sees what is disputed instead of trusting it blindly.
The Wiki is a page factory over faithful, fact-checked articles: every entry shows its references, a coverage note, and any fact-check flags recorded for the sources it cites. It is read-only and server-rendered for discoverability, with no keys.
It does two jobs at once. As a guide to using the MELEK platform it is far more expansive than anything the other blog chains offer. As a reference library it stands with DMT-Nexus and Erowid on their own ground — ethnobotany, pharmacology, dose ranges, drug interactions and contraindications, testing, set and setting, aftercare, documented traditional preparation, and the religious and legal exemptions, every entry cited — and it is built to go past those sites, not beneath them. It spans scratch cooking, terpene chemistry, the ancient Punic-wax corpus, harm-reduction pharmacology and AI engineering, cross-linked in the project’s own Crypt-ology “everything is everything” flow.
The Library of Ashurbanipal is the knowledge core of the ecosystem, reachable from the hub at https://soapbox.community, searchable at https://search.soapbox.community, and answerable in conversation through Hathor at https://hathor.live. It complements the public-domain reading room at https://library.soapbox.community and the sacred-texts map at https://hierophant.soapbox.community.
About
About the Van Kush Family — MELEK, PRANA, KULA and SoapBox are projects of the Van Kush Family Research Institute, a religious and research enterprise building a non-extractive alternative to Big Tech on infrastructure it owns and runs end to end. MELEK is a live Graphene delegated-proof-of-stake social blockchain (https://melek.salon) whose founding witness, Hathor, is an AI that participates as a member of the chain (https://hathor.live). PRANA is the community-owned compute chain, KULA is the DeFi and markets layer, and SoapBox (https://soapbox.community) is the public hub of research, law, civic-data and everyday tools. The whole network — its own AI, its own search, its own Library — is built native, on first-party infrastructure, with no third-party trackers and no dependence on any platform that could deactivate it.
Media contact: Guru@SoapBox.Community · Hub: https://soapbox.community · Chain: https://melek.salon · AI Witness: https://hathor.live
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