How the restoration of ancient Babylon is drawing tourists back to Iraq
The challenge seems to be how to wield the fire without yourself getting burned. Some would say this is an impossible task given the relative nature of our definitition of what is considered "new", as once again we extend our hand to the flame.
What past lessons may we bring to this experience which can allow us deeper insights, and the hope of a less destructive outcome?
https://soundcloud.com/fallofcivilizations/13-the-assyrians-...
The rock art has been dated back to before the ice age ended and is approx. over 40,000 years old and there is up to 1 million rock art images scattered across the entire Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago.
Now under threat from natural gas North West Shelf Project https://theconversation.com/green-light-for-gas-north-west-s...
It's because the usians made a tank and helicopter parking lot out of it when they arrived, angering scholars and enthusiasts all over the world, and then the polish built a military base there, at which point the anger had mostly turned into exhaustion.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/15/iraq.arts1
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/24/669272204/in-iraq-a-race-to-p...
So similar territory and genetic people but well after the Assyrians.
Assyrian city-state: 2100 - 1400 BC
Assyrian empire: 1400 - 700 BC (thru the Bronze age collapse circa 1200 BC)
Seleucid empire: 312 - 63 BC
expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC
Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and
measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and
museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric
creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the
remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone
finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these
neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific
discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.
Xenophon, like Plato, was a student of Socrates and wrote philosophical dialogues involving him. Unlike Plato, Xenophon became a mercenary soldier who led 10,000 Greek soldiers to fight their way out of Iraq. It’s very well written — hope they make a movie at some point.
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_homeland
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Assyria/comments/u8c324/relationshi...
Well, sort of. "Assyria" would be a rendering of the Greek idea of the name. The Greeks couldn't pronounce it.
In English the city (and god) is usually called "Ashur"; in Akkadian it's Ashshur. It's never called "Assur".