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March 16, 2003
Babylonian Booty
Two articles in Newsweek you should check out. One titled Babylonian Booty goes over the peril to ancient (we're talkin' 5,000 years old ancient) sites. Then, there is Fareed Zakaria's The Arrogant Empire, which indicates that style is more of a problem with the administration's foreign policy than substance....
(There really needs to be a book titled How the Sumerians saved civilization by creating it!)
Posted by razib at
03:42 PM
Here's the Salon piece, Hey, mister -- wanna buy a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet for $10?, from about a year ago. Our species oldest historical information is being lost forever into private collections. Posted by: Jason Malloy at March 16, 2003 04:33 PM |
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