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> btw I'm not forgetting who it was that invaded Iraq and first ran roughshod over thousands of years of archeological treasures. You mean the Assyrians? Yes i
by ithkuil 2y ago
> btw I'm not forgetting who it was that invaded Iraq and first ran roughshod over thousands of years of archeological treasures.
You mean the Assyrians? Yes indeed they ravaged and destroyed the remnants of great civilizations that lived more than two millennia before them. Their brutality was legendary. It was about time somebody did to them what they did to Sumer!
(Just kidding of course I know who you are referring to. I find it hard to truly grasp the timescales of the past.
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoYou jest, but one reason that destroying the history of the Middle East is so harmful is the constant vandalism by basically everyone against everyone else in the region since the dawn of history (and probably before). The Americans were just the latest barbarians getting in on the game. But I expect modern people to be aware of all this and not be like the bloody Assyrians.
- ithkuil 2y ago(I'll continue to jest) Yeah, at least the civilized British took great care at carefully taking all the artefacts and bringing them to safety in the British Museum