ha! Ea-Nasir and the ancient tablets that describe his copper corruption are a running joke between Dear Brother and me. he has handled the tablet(s?) and we laugh that it was the earleist known “bad yelp review”!
DB just left the keys for Orlando after a week’s stay here with our mum. there is more about his visit in the food thread. Mesopotamian cooking with Dr. Brad. Sumerian lunch bowls and a king’s favorite cookies - tell your friends!
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I think a reproduction of the tablet would be a pretty amusing decoration to have around the house, good conversation starter.
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This reminded me of a brilliant made-for-TV movie from 1978 named “Holocaust,” which I think should be required viewing for everyone in the US now, along with “Army of Shadows.”
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(And @nosaj)
From that article:
That same Tuesday, March 21, an Article 48 decree was issued amnestying National Socialists convicted of crimes, including murder, perpetrated “in the battle for national renewal.” Men convicted of treason were now national heroes.
Chilling. Not just parallels…the actual playbook being performed again.
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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Suspect there will be more of this sort of rhyming in our future.
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It really is starting to look like for Tromp and Musk especially, the only problem with Nazis is that they didn’t have nuclear weapons (and um, space lasers? A battalion of billionaires?).
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I mean in this case we are talking about people who purposely studied Hitler to learn from the masters.
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Yep. During the war there was a 3 way race for nukes, and the nazis were the furthest behind on it…
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Thank you, Baby!
Amenhotep III’s temple actually disappeared because its stones were taken - essentially used as a quarry - by Ramses II’s successor, Merneptah, for his own building projects. It didn’t sink under the floodplain.
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This kind of reusing of stones in existing temples and buildings was unfortunately quite common. Why bother digging up a quarry and cutting the stones when you can go across the territory and “borrow” some from that old temple?
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Yup. Akhenaten’s city, Akhetaten - modern Amarna - was used as a quarry by Ramses II. Later rulers, starting with Horemheb - the third king who followed him, took Akhenaten’s temples in Thebes to pieces and used the stones for their projects.
Some temples, buildings, sculptures, etc, or parts of them, have been recovered from the later buildings in which they were hidden or reused, but for the most part, that stuff is gone for good. That’s bad.
The romans used Djedefra’s pyramid as a quarry, despite that 4th Dynasty king’s temple still being busy all those millennia later, and his remaining popular in the common memory and with the common people.
Edited for clarity
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Upcycling!
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