[LT Brass Bancroft]

But do they know the capital of Assyria?

[dadfly]

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[nothingnew]

Of interest?

FMCDH(BITS)

[Redbob]

And people wonder why universities feel entitled to keep the artifacts they’ve found.

[El Cid]

A George Smith ping.
A brilliant man who has never received his due from the public.

Although the NY Times back in the 1800s sounds like the NY Times we know and love in the 21st Century.

Smith's reading caused a sensation. There were some who seized on the poem with pious satisfaction, taking it to corroborate the essential truth of the Bible. But there were others who found it more troubling. As the New York Times put it in a front page article the following day, the Flood Tablet had exposed "various traditions of the deluge apart from the Biblical one, which is perhaps legendary like the rest".

Good to know that the NY Times has always been ... jerks.
Had they been publishing back in 32 AD, after the Lord Jesus walked on water, they'd have led their head line with "Jesus can't swim"...

[colorado tanker]

Thanks for posting. This is a really interesting article.

I think a lot of people are re-thinking the idea that the Brits and French "looted" the Middle East. At least in the IS occupied region, that may be all that will be saved.