Tag: antiquity
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#MorningMonarchy: July 6, 2017
Artifact smuggling, abuse inquiries and concert bombings + this day in history w/Satchmo dies and our song of the day by L.A. Witch on your Morning Monarchy for July 6, 2017.
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Five Best: Religious Cults In Antiquity
from wsj.com: Written by Mary Beard: The Greeks and the Irrational. By E.R. Dodds (1951) For me, this was a life-changing book. It starts with an encounter in the British Museum in front of the sculptures from the Parthenon. E.R. Dodds bumps into a young man who is unimpressed—he can’t bear the ancient Greeks, he…
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The Significance of Studying Ancient History
from graecomuse.wordpress.com: When someone asks me what I am researching at university I admit that sometimes I am not all that keen on answering with ‘ancient history’. It’s not because I have any problem with it, I love ancient history in all respects and it will never cease to interest me, but I do know…
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The New World Order’s Tower of Babel
from strategic-culture.org: Article: Recent events in Iraq, Libya and Syria have one common factor which is being carefully concealed: the looting of museums and the destruction of entire strata of the rich heritage of ancient cultures by the American «liberators». For example, after the Americans plundered Baghdad’s museums, a large part of the loot was…
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Inside the Great Pyramid
from blogs.smithsonianmag.com: “There is a story, regrettably apocryphal, about Napoleon and the Great Pyramid. When Bonaparte visited Giza during his Nile expedition of 1798 (it goes), he determined to spend a night alone inside the King’s Chamber, the granite-lined vault that lies precisely in the center of the pyramid. This chamber is generally acknowledged as…