It's gone for good, much of the history of Mesopotamia. As a letter writer scribed, these items survived the Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Ottomans and Iraqis only to be destroyed for lack of a few soldiers. Two laments one terse and one verbose express it better than I.
Posted at April 15, 2003 12:01 PMNot to mention surviving Macedonians.
I've been unable to express my reaction to this. We need a word for that emotion compounded of grief and disgust.
---L.
Posted by: Larry Hammer on April 15, 2003 05:55 PM