Saturday, May 23, 2015

Grieving for Palmyra's detonated Roman temple? Antiquities and The Anarchy of the Ages...

UPDATE: While we grieve for Nimrud and the latest news that in Palmyra a Roman era temple has been obliterated with explosives, let's not forget to celebrate the miracle that so much of antiquity has survived the anarchy of the ages.

The British Museum

In places like Egypt, Greece, Italy, Meso-America...

In our museums around the world.

In our books and film material.

(And maybe let's think hard about the wisdom of repatriating the world's antiquities collections.)