A New Week

Well, another weekend in the history books.  I should have spent a lot more time looking for interesting posts, but traffic really does fall off during the weekend.  Especially this time of year, when the weather is nicer and football is in play.  Someday, I'll organize my staff of dozens and schedule somebody to do the weekend posting! <G>

To kick things off for the new week, a troubling report from Iraq.  Not that it's that unusual to find a discouraging word from there, but this one hits the history books.

Cradle of civilization being looted and destroyed

It was so much different back when it was the Taliban destroying the Buddhas of Bayan in Afghanistan. The world was outraged and Colin Powell even referred to it as a "crime against humankind. Now that centuries of history are being looted and damaged across Iraq, we hear so little. We can add this to the list of history sites that the US has destroyed such as My Son and Hue in Vietnam. Who needs history anyway? "There are 10,000 archaeological sites in the country. In the Nassariyah area alone, there are about 840 Sumerian sites; they have all been systematically looted. Even when Alexander the Great destroyed a city, he would [...]

Tags: Iraq History, Cradle of Civilization, Nassariyah, Sumerian

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