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: ...
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 ...
“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 ...