In “Ignorant armies: History as an ideological battleground,” TLS, 11/23/24, Niall Ferguson, reviewing The War Against the Past: Why the West must fight for its history by Frank Furedi, writes: ...
“I flayed all the chiefs who had revolted, and I covered the pillar with their skins,” wrote the Assyrian King Ashurnasirpal II in 883 BCE. “Some I impaled upon the pillar on stakes and ...
Archaeologists have unlocked a portal to the past through an object that might seem mundane at first glance: a sun-dried ...
not fundamentally different from the vandalizing of the ninth-century BC palace of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II by Islamic State in Nimrud, Iraq, in 2015. There is burning of books with ...