Podcasts about Nimrud

The Mosul region is the focus of renewed activity by local and foreign teams. Archaeology there inevitably works differently now. Michael and John talk about the Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program, including conservation and reconstruction work, excavation, and capacity building. 2:34Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program3:39 Nimrud and Nineveh8:29why those sites? Who sets the goals?12:56exhibition and online resources13:47conservation and reconstruction18:08long term commitment20:06the dig team22:38latest results from Nimrud31:26kudurru34:46architectural remains37:01inscriptions39:34publication, research, collaboration42:51working in Mosul region45:52engaging communities50:26what's next?https://www.penn.museum/about/press-room/press-releases/preserving-assyriahttps://www.penn.museum/calendar/423/the-deep-digMichael's Academia pageJohn's Academia pageMusic by Ruba HillawiWebsite: http://wedgepod.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM7ZlAAgOXv4fbTDRyrWgwEmail: wedgepod@gmail.comPatreon: http://Patreon.com/WedgePod

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La ville de Nimrud en Irak était autrefois la capitale de lʹEmpire néo-assyrien. Cette ville royale, dotée de palais et de temples, est un site qui a attiré de nombreux archéologues. Pour parler de lʹhistoire des lieux ainsi que de la restitution par la Suisse de biens culturels archéologiques à lʹIrak, Johanne Dussez sʹentretient avec Marc-André Haldimann, archéologue, chercheur associé à lʹUniversité de Bern et expert fédéral en archéologie méditerranéenne. Sujets traités : Nimrud, Irak, Ville, royale, palais, temples,site,archéologues, néo-assyrien, Empire Merci pour votre écoute Un Jour dans l'Histoire, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 13h15 à 14h30 sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes d'Un Jour dans l'Histoire sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/5936 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Assyrian capital. Thank you for listening! God bless you!

La ville de Nimrud en Irak était autrefois la capitale de lʹEmpire néo-assyrien. Cette ville royale, dotée de palais et de temples, est un site qui a attiré de nombreux archéologues. Pour parler de lʹhistoire des lieux ainsi que de la restitution par la Suisse de biens culturels archéologiques à lʹIrak, Johanne Dussez sʹentretient avec Marc-André Haldimann, archéologue, chercheur associé à lʹUniversité de Bern et expert fédéral en archéologie méditerranéenne.

Location of the Tower of Babel? Maybe. Thank you for listening! God bless!

Calah, Nimrud, Kalhu - the new city of Assurnasirpal which will serve as imperial capital for the next century and a half has many names, but is built on a foundation of blood and plunder. We look at the city today, the grand buildings and mighty feasts held to inaugurate the new city, but our focus is on the death and slavery upon which it, like the empire, it would serve, is built upon. In the process, we see the genius and industry of the tireless psychopath who is rocketing Assyria from a major regional power into an unstoppable empire. It is a period which could, in theory, be easily summarized, yet the force of the narrative is simply too powerful to skip over. And though our focus is on Kalhu, we actually will see three major towns founded in only a few short years, including Dur-Assur and Tushha. We end today with another sad discussion on the Islamic destruction of non-Muslim peoples and heritage. I didn't want to get too deep into it, because it is super depressing, but here is a very moderate modern-day Islamic resource I sometimes consult and have always found to be very evenhanded discussing A) where the obligation to destroy Kalhu came from and B) why it is only in modern times that many of these places are actually getting destroyed. Link here: https://islamqa.info/en/answers/20894/obligation-to-destroy-idols Note that there are more hadith discussing the destruction of idols, but I assume the article here is taking the most reliable of them. Also, thanks to MEMRI TV for providing that jihadi footage at the end today. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/oldeststories/message

Episode 246 – Archeology and the Bible – Part 2 – The Resurrection of Nineveh Welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” The goal of Anchored by Truth is to encourage everyone to grow in the Christian faith by anchoring themselves to the secure truth found in the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. Script: One day the LORD told Jonah, the son of Amittai, to go to the great city of Nineveh and say to the people, “The LORD has seen your terrible sins. You are doomed!” Jonah, Chapter 1, verses 1 and 2, Contemporary English Version ******** VK: Hello and welcome to Anchored by Truth brought to you by Crystal Sea Books. I’m Victoria K. All of us at Anchored by Truth are excited to be with you at the start of a New Year and a new series. As we often talk, the Christian faith in America has been subjected to more challenges in the last couple of decades than it was in the first 225 years of the country’s existence. One comment that we hear frequently in the popular media – that is completely false – is that the Bible is a book filled with “myth and fairy tales.” Nothing could be further from the truth and this is a claim that is easily refuted. And one way it can be refuted is by knowing that the Bible contains a large body of reliable history. And one way to demonstrate that the history the Bible contains is reliable is by pointing to archeological discoveries. So, RD has entitled this series “Archeology and the Bible” and we have RD, who is an author and the founder of Crystal Sea Books, in the studio today. RD, in our first episode in this series you pointed out that archeological finds can be a valuable source of support for the accuracy of the history that the Bible reports. Despite the fact that popular culture has tried to dismiss the connection the truth is the relationship between the Bible and archeology has been mutually supportive. Many scholars, including ones who weren’t Christian, have used the Bible as a source document when planning or conducting their excavations. The Bible was and is widely regarded as an important source of information about ancient peoples and cultures. The trend to dismiss the Bible’s accuracy in matters of dates and places in the Mideast has become popular among skeptics but it is completely out of sync with how the Bible was viewed among professionals. In fact, the Bible’s history has been shown to be accurate even when doubted and you said that’s something you wanted to illustrate today, right? RD: Absolutely. But before we get into that I would also like to welcome the listeners to our show. Anchored by Truth’s sole purpose is to equip believers to be able to answer the question “how can we be sure the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God.” And one way to do that is to use confirmed archeological discoveries to show that the Bible’s historical reports are accurate even when they have been doubted by secular scholars. Today I want to revisit one of the most famous examples of the Bible getting history right even when skeptics for centuries dismissed the Bible’s report. VK: So, since our opening scripture was from the book of Jonah I’m guessing that today you want to talk about the discovery of the city of Nineveh in the 19th century. Nineveh was the capital of Assyrian empire and was one of the most prominent cities in the ancient world. You wouldn’t think that a city as important as Nineveh could get lost in history but it did. An article on the United Church of God’s website says this: “Nineveh, the capital city, fell to the Babylonians in 612 B.C. About 50 years after its peak, [the Assyrian Empire had] collapsed and virtually vanished from history. By the time of Jesus Christ and the apostles, no physical evidence of Nineveh could be seen. Lucian of Samosata ([who lived from] A.D. 120-180), a Greek writer, lamented: "Nineveh has perished. No trace of it remains. No one can say where once it existed" ... Such a lack of visible remains led some scholars of the 19th century to express skepticism that Nineveh or any part of the Assyrian Empire even existed, much less dominated a significant part of the world.” RD: Yes. From around 900 BC to 600 BC the Assyrian Empire was the dominant military power in the Mideast. Some scholars believe that during this time period it was the most formidable military power in the world. But as you just quoted, in the waning years of the 7th century BC, Assyria began to weaken and it ultimately fell to the Babylonians under King Nabopolassar. The fall of the Assyrian Empire isn’t all that remarkable because if we learn anything from history it’s that all empires, regardless of their power during their peak years, always weaken and ultimately fall. The Assyrians fell to the Babylonians, the Babylonians to the Persians, the Persians to the Greeks, and the Greeks to the Romans. And even the mighty Roman Empire which lasted even longer than the Assyrians or any of its predecessors ultimately collapsed under the weight of social decay and external pressures. What is somewhat remarkable is that the Assyrians disappeared so completely that secular history completely lost sight of them. VK: But, let’s be clear, in addition to the Bible recording the existence and greatness of the Assyrian Empire the Bible also had prophesied the destruction and disappearance of the Assyrian Empire. The Bible prophesied that God would use the Assyrians to punish His people because of their drift into idolatry. But at the same time God also told the Assyrians they would be punished in turn because of their arrogance. For instance, Isaiah, chapter 10, verses 15 through 19 record God saying to the Assyrians, “But can the ax boast greater power than the person who uses it? Is the saw greater than the person who saws? Can a rod strike unless a hand moves it? Can a wooden cane walk by itself? Therefore, the Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, will send a plague among Assyria’s proud troops, and a flaming fire will consume its glory. The LORD, the Light of Israel, will be a fire; the Holy One will be a flame. He will devour the thorns and briers with fire, burning up the enemy in a single night. The LORD will consume Assyria’s glory like a fire consumes a forest in a fruitful land; it will waste away like sick people in a plague. Of all that glorious forest, only a few trees will survive — so few that a child could count them!” That’s from the New Living Translation. RD: And Isaiah was not the only Old Testament prophet to warn Assyria of their coming destruction. Why don’t you read Nahum, chapter 2, verses 11 through 13? VK: Those verses say, “Where now is that great Nineveh, that den filled with young lions? It was a place where people—like lions and their cubs— walked freely and without fear. The lion tore up meat for his cubs and strangled prey for his mate. He filled his den with prey, his caverns with his plunder. ‘I am your enemy!’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. ‘Your chariots will soon go up in smoke. Your young men will be killed in battle. Never again will you plunder conquered nations. The voices of your proud messengers will be heard no more.” RD: Listen to the last portion of what you read from Isaiah. God told the Assyrians that their “glorious forest” would be reduced to so few trees that a child could count them. Then in Nahum God said, “the voices of your proud messengers will be heard no more.” These are essentially poetic ways of God telling the Assyrians they would be utterly destroyed and they were. But what we want to focus on today is that after those prophesies were fulfilled, and Nineveh was destroyed by the Babylonians, it wasn’t just reduced to a vassal state – as often happened. Nineveh and the Assyrians were so devastated that they disappeared. This huge city that was located in modern day Iraq literally disappeared into the sands. As the Greek writer you quoted said, “Nineveh has perished. No trace of it remains. No one can say where once it existed." Lucian lived in the 2nd century AD – almost 1,900 years ago. At least at that time secular history remembered Nineveh. But by the 19th century AD even that memory had disappeared – or at least it was greatly doubted. The one source, though, that unequivocally preserved the memory of the Assyrians and Nineveh was the Bible. VK: Well, one reason some secular historians may have begun to doubt the existence of an actual Nineveh was because one Bible book in which Nineveh plays a prominent role is the book of Jonah. Jonah may be the most famous of the Minor Prophets because his book contains one of the best known stories in the Bible – a man is saved from drowning by being swallowed by an extremely large sea creature and then tossed up on land. That same man later preaches to a pagan city and in 3 days converts the whole city including the king. That story sound mythical. So, maybe historians reasoned that the whole book of Jonah was mythical including the existence of Nineveh and the Assyrian empire? RD: And that’s certainly possible even though Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire are also mentioned in several other books of the Bible. But one thing the skeptics could take comfort from was that until the mid-19th century there was no physical evidence of Nineveh’s existence. Physically, Nineveh had just vanished. And archeology, as we know it today, was just beginning to emerge in the 19th century. And for the opening decades of the 19th century Nineveh still remained undiscovered. But then all that changed. The online Encyclopedia Britannica has this to say about the discovery of Nineveh. “The first person to survey and map Nineveh was the archaeologist Claudius J. Rich in 1820, a work later completed by Felix Jones and published by him in 1854. Excavations have been undertaken intermittently since that period by many persons. … Sir Henry Layard during 1845–51 discovered the palace of Sennacherib and took back to England an unrivalled collection of stone bas-reliefs together with thousands of tablets inscribed in cuneiform from the great library of Ashurbanipal.” VK: So, at least one of the names you just read should be familiar to any student of the Bible, right? RD: Right. Sennacherib was one of the most famous of the kings of Assyria and is mentioned in several places of the Bible. VK: Such as in the historical books of Kings and Chronicles. RD: Yes. Sennacherib is well known to Bible readers because at one point he invaded the kingdom of Judah with the intent to make it part of the Assyrian Empire. VK: Let’s remind listeners that during the time that David and his son, Solomon, were the kings of Israel the nation was unified. But when Solomon’s son took over the kingdom split in two. After that the northern kingdom was called Israel and the southern kingdom was called Judah. The northern kingdom was ruled by a series of idolatrous kings and was eventually conquered by the Assyrians in 722 B.C. The Assyrians deported the Israelites and resettled some other people into that territory. Judah remained an independent kingdom although it paid annual tributes to the Assyrians. But around 701 BC the Assyrians invaded Judah. 2 Chronicles, chapter 32, verse 1 says that the Assyrian king “laid siege to the fortified cities, thinking to conquer them for himself.” RD: Right. The Assyrian king who laid siege to the cities of Judah was Sennacherib which the Bible tells us. But until the middle of the 19th century secular historians weren’t even sure that Sennacherib was a historical figure. But as the entry from the Encyclopedia Britannica told us once Sir Henry Layard discovered the great library of Assurbanipal all that changed. That library contained thousands of clay cuneiform tablets, including tablets that described Sennacherib’s invasion of Judah. And those tablets provided clear confirmation of the accuracy of the Bible’s text. VK: That same article from the United Church of God’s website says this. “Assyrian records of these events quote the King … of Assyria boasting of his devastating invasion of Judah: ‘Forty-six of [Hezekiah's] strong walled towns and innumerable smaller villages...I besieged and conquered...As for Hezekiah, the awful splendor of my lordship overwhelmed him’ … [the Assyrian records] noted that [the king] had made Hezekiah ‘a prisoner in Jerusalem, his royal residence, like a bird in a cage.’” RD: Right. The article goes on to say, “The biblical record agrees with Sennacherib's account of the Assyrian invasion and notes the desperation of the kingdom of Judah as the Assyrians laid siege to Jerusalem, their last surviving stronghold. However, the Bible continues the story where the Assyrian records are silent. With Jerusalem facing imminent destruction, the people of Judah, led by King Hezekiah, prayed fervently to God (Isaiah 37:15-20) and were miraculously delivered against overwhelming odds.” In both the books of 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles the Bible tells us that Hezekiah and the people’s prayers brought deliverance. VK: 2 Kings, chapter 19, verses 32 through 37 say this. “Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it. By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city, declares the Lord. I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’ That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! So [the] king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god … his sons … killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.” [EH-SAHR-HEH-DOHN] RD: And the records that were brought back from the great library confirmed this account. Sennacherib carefully recorded a list of the cities he captured and destroyed, but one city is conspicuously absent—Jerusalem. Sennacherib talks about besieging Hezekiah in the city—not of taking it or Hezekiah, Judah's king. So, after almost 1,900 years of silence that prompted the secular world to doubt the authenticity of the Bible the Bible’s record was again proven to be true. The cuneiform tablets unearthed from Assurbanipal’s great library confirmed the Bible’s record of Sennacherib’s interactions with Judah exactly as described. VK: So, this reinforces one of the big points that we made in our first episode on “Archeology and the Bible.” One very important role archeology plays with respect to the Bible is to help affirm the reliability of the Bible’s historical reports. That’s what happened when archeologists began excavating at the site of the ancient city of Nineveh. At first they just found the ruins of the city. But when Henry Layard found the library the tablets in the library confirmed many of the details contained in the Bible’s historical records. These included the names of kings from both countries, the fact that Assyria invaded Judah and conquered many Judean cities, and that the Assyrians never conquered Jerusalem. The Assyrian records also confirmed that the invading king was murdered by two of his own sons and that a 3rd son inherited the empire. RD: Yes. Even though secular history lost sight of Nineveh for almost 2 millennia the Bible never did. But, let’s get back to the book of Jonah. We started out noting that one of the books of the Bible in which Nineveh features prominently is Jonah but some of the other elements of Jonah are so unusual that it made the book seem more fiction. But let’s show that even one of the historical details contained in book of Jonah was shown to be accurate. In Jonah, chapter 3, verse 3, Jonah gives us a detail about the city that seems unlikely. VK: Jonah, chapter 3, verse 3 says, in part, “This time Jonah obeyed the LORD’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all.” That’s from the New Living Translation. The New International Version says, “Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.” What you’re saying is that that seems like a very large city if it takes 3 days for a person to walk across it. There aren’t that many modern cities that you couldn’t walk across in a day or two. So, a city that takes 3 days to cross seems improbable. RD: But, as improbable as it may seem, archeology has shown that even this detail from the book of Jonah is correct. Genesis, chapter 10, verses 11 and 12 tell us about the founding of Nineveh. It says, “From that land Nimrod went to Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah, 12and [Nimrod built] Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah; all these [combined to form] the great city [Nineveh].” That’s from the Amplified Bible. A Wikipedia article on the city of Nineveh notes that “The ruins of Kuyunjiq, Nimrud, Karamlesh, and Khorsabad for the four corners of an irregular quadrilateral. . The ruins of the ‘great city’ Nineveh, … [is] included within the parallelogram [formed] by lines drawn from the one to the other, [the Biblical reference in Jonah is] generally regarded as consisting of these four sites.” Furthermore, excavations have revealed that, as was common in ancient times, there were defensive fortifications in the area that lay well outside the walls of the Nineveh proper. These defensive fortifications were probably like outposts that could be used both to slow the advance of an oncoming army as well as give early warning to the main city. In walking from the outposts on one side of the region to the other archeologists found that it did indeed take a few days to cross from one outer ring of fortifications to the one on the opposite side. VK: Also, even in our day it’s common to refer to a large area by the name of a city that dominates it. If you look at a map we know that the New York City includes Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and so forth. But no one would bat an eye is someone from Florida just told their friends they were travelling to New York even though they might wind up in the Bronx. So, when the Hebrew writer said that Nineveh was a very great city that it took three days to cross the writer was just using the same kind of descriptive language we use today. RD: Agreed. In fact, the use of that kind of informal descriptive language adds to the authenticity of the book of Jonah. If someone had been contriving a pious fraud about a man being miraculously delivered by a fish from drowning before converting the capital city of his enemies it’s unlikely they would have been cavalier about describing the people who were to be converted. But someone recording a true, though remarkable, tale of conversion, whether the writer was Jonah or someone else, will write using the conversational conventions of their day. VK: What we’ve been talking about in this episode of Anchored by Truth is summed up well in the article from the United Church of God. The article says, “the only historical source in those days that verified the existence of the empire was the Bible. The Old Testament histories and prophecies spoke about Assyria. Jesus proclaimed the existence of Nineveh as a historical fact (Matthew 12:41). Yet some scholars disputed the testimony of Jesus and the prophets—that is, until ‘one spectacular decade in the middle of the nineteenth century...[when] Austen Henry Layard and Paul Emile Botta rediscovered in northern Iraq the ancient remains of three Assyrian cities [including Nineveh] and evidence of the military panoply that had crushed all resistance from the Tigris to the Nile. The Assyrian empire...in all its awesome power had been resurrected through archaeology.’” RD: So, the book of Jonah and the other books that mention Assyria and Nineveh provide a clear and easily understandable example of archeology producing evidence that demonstrated the truth of the Bible’s history – even when evidence had disappeared for a long time. Secular historians had concluded that the absence of evidence was evidence of absence. But it wasn’t. VK: The point you’re making is that is important to not discount the reliability of the Bible just because secular culture or so-called experts would like to do so. RD: Exactly. The Bible is the Word of God and as such it is trustworthy. But God has not asked us to suspend the use of ordinary human tools such as archeology, science, and logic in our pursuit of understanding the Bible. It is not unreasonable to for an honest skeptic to ask the question, “what evidence is there that the Bible is the Word of God?” That’s not an unreasonable question. What is unreasonable is for us to provide example after example of scientific fact or archeological discoveries supporting the Bible only for the skeptic to contend that the evidence doesn’t exist. There comes a point where a request for evidence dissolves into a simple unwillingness to accept what the evidence is saying. VK: So, when we encounter a book like Jonah it’s not unreasonable to approach certain parts of it – a man being swallowed and kept alive by a giant fish or whale – with an initial skepticism. Men being swallowed by giant fish isn’t an everyday occurrence for us. But the fact that it is unusual does not mean it’s impossible. And when we begin looking at elements within the book of Jonah that we can test directly we find out that a fair test tells us that the writer of Jonah was writing history not myth. RD: Right. In our first episode in this series we pointed out that another amazing story contained in the Bible, that of David and Goliath – that might on first blush look legendary – in fact is historically accurate in the details it reports. The book of Jonah reinforces the points we made in our first episode in this series. Archeology can play two very important roles in our study of the Bible and that’s why we’re doing this series. Archeology can help skeptics see that the Bible is not, in fact, a book of “myth and fairy tale.” It is a book firmly set in place and time and its reports of those places and times are trustworthy. Archeology can also help us expand our understanding of the places and times of the Bible and of the people, societies, and cultures that the Bible describes. This helps us understand the Bible’s messages more clearly. VK: Well, This sounds like a great time to pray. Today let’s listen to a prayer for our friends and neighbors who have not yet come to know Christ as their savior. Just as God converted the people of Nineveh through Jonah’s preaching, we can pray that the Lord will convert the lost of our day through our own preaching. Only God can change the human heart but He most often does it by using human instruments, like us, as part of His great work of redemption. ---- PRAYER FOR THE SPIRITUALLY LOST VK: We’d like to remind our audience that a lot of our radio episodes are linked together in series of topics so if they missed any episodes or if they just want to hear one again, all of these episodes are available on your favorite podcast app. To find them just search on “Anchored by Truth by Crystal Sea Books.” If you’d like to hear more, try out crystalseabooks.com where “We’re not perfect but our Boss is!” (Bible Quotes from the Contemporary English Version) Jonah, Chapter 1, verses 1 and 2, Contemporary English Version A Staggering Archaelogical Discovery: The Mighty Assyrian Empire Emerges From the Dust | United Church of God (ucg.org) Nineveh | History, Map, & Significance | Britannica Topical Bible: Ashurbanipal (biblehub.com) Nineveh - Wikipedia

Born in Mexico to American parents, David Luhnow (@davidluhnow) returned to report on the country for decades. Luhnow talks about the tectonic shifts in Mexico and yet, how through all this time, the country's institutions continue to fail. The mental toll of years reporting on Mexico's drug war contributed to his leaving to become the current United Kingdom bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal​​. Also, he gets punched in the face. Countries featured: Mexico, Panama, Iraq, Egypt, United Kingdom Publications featured: The Mexico City News, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal   Here are links to some of the things we talked about David's story on the UK university system - https://bit.ly/3szftyy Yaroslav Trofimov on WSJ.com - https://bit.ly/47AewFv David's story A Day in the Life of Baghdad - https://bit.ly/3SKiWoB His story on the Treasure of Nimrud in Iraq - https://bit.ly/3SMB692 His story on the Iraq cigarette company - https://bit.ly/3R5jYKp His story on murder in Acapulco - https://bit.ly/47ksI5f His story on a high school kidnap ring - https://bit.ly/49KE8AY Mexico's Reforma newspaper - https://bit.ly/49CUpb7 Letras Libras - https://letraslibres.com The Rest is History podcast - https://bit.ly/49FBYlT New Yorker story "How the Elderly Lose Their Rights" - https://bit.ly/3sFz3Js José de Córdoba's story on the Russian yacht in Antigua - https://bit.ly/40K1fr4   Follow us on Twitter @foreignpod or on Facebook at facebook.com/foreignpod Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats From: freemusicarchive.org CC BY NC

During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about the collapse of the Northern Kingdom to the Neo-Assyrians. Understand why the conquerors are “neo,” where the “lost tribes of Israel” went, and how the Samaritans' culture developed. Episode links: “House of David“ inscribed on a victory stele, (now at the Israel Museum): https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/371407-0 Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1848-1104-1 “Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat),” UNESCO World Heritage Convention, https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1130/ Timeline of Nimrud Excavations: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/nimrud/index.html Marcia Biggs, “Reduced to rubble by ISIS, archaeologists see a new day for ancient city of Nimrud,” PBS News Hour (12 April 2017): https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/reduced-rubble-isis-archaeologists-see-new-day-ancient-city-nimrud Relief of Tiglath-Pileser III from Nimrud's Central Palace (now at the British Museum): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1856-0909-61 “Sargon II - The Ashur Charter," from the Library of Ashurbanipal (now at the British Museum): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_K-1349 Red-Haired Archaeologist® links: https://redhairedarchaeologist.com/free https://www.facebook.com/AmandaHopeHaley/ https://www.instagram.com/redhairedarchaeologist/ https://amandahopehaley.square.site/ Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at ⁠https://tanyaremkiv.com⁠ and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv

Llamada “La Dama del Misterio”, la vida de Agatha Christie fue tan apasionante como sus novelas y tuvo también su dosis de misterio. Bibliografía  Elliot, Julián ¿Dóne está Agatha Christie? (enero, 2011) Historia y Vida, #514. 72-79 González, Carlos. Agatha Cristie: vida privada de la reina del misterio (21/VI/2021). Mujer Hoy Consultado el 24 de agosto de 2023. Página Web: https://www.mujerhoy.com/celebrities/corazon/201603/16/agatha-christie-vida-privada-reina-misterio-20160316100205.html?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mujerhoy.com%2Fcelebrities%2Fcorazon%2F201603%2F16%2Fagatha-christie-vida-privada-reina-misterio-20160316100205.html  Márquez Rowe, Ignacio. Agatha Christie y los marfiles de Nimrud. (Octubre, 2016) Historia. National Geographic #.154 36-47 S/a. Agatha Christie, enfermera en la Primera Guerra Mundial. (18/IV/2022). Divertimento Enfermero Consultado el 24 de agosto de 2023  Página Web: https://divertimentoenfermero.blogspot.com/2022/04/agatha-christie-enfermera-en-la-primera.html  Sadurni, J.M. Agatha Christie. La Gran Dama del Misterio. (19/IV/2022) Historia. National Geographic Consultado el 24 de agosto de 2023. Página Web: https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/agatha-christie-gran-dama-misterio_14680  Sadurni, J.M. La Verdadera Historia de Hércules Poirot (19/IV/2022) Historia. National Geographic. Consultado el 24 de agosto de 2023 Página Web: https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/verdadera-historia-hercules-poirot_16868

This documentary filmmaker, TV producer, and treasure hunter has traveled to some of the most beautiful and dangerous locations on the planet. The discussion includes ancient Assyrian artifacts, sunken ships, the treasures of Nimrud, underwater safecracking, a billion dollars in gold, and the greatest sizzle reel no one's ever seen. Thanks to our sponsors www.wondrium.com/rowe www.ziprecruiter.com/rowe

Happy FIVE YEARS OF BIBLEISH, everyone! This Easter, we're bringing you a whole new tale of Ishtar - and the real-life archaeologist who felt her wrath. To our knowledge, this story has never been put together this way before. So gather 'round and enjoy our mini-tale of Biblical travel, deceit, and redemption. Special thanks (as every year) to Orangery at Pixabay for the music :) Support the showSUPPORT THE SHOW ONPatreonInstagramFacebook

Los mitos y misterios que envuelven las más icónicas y conocidas megaestructuras del planeta han sobrevivido al paso de los siglos.

Genesis stories continue with the Tower of Babel, and this is how it came to be: Cain "wandered" from the presence of the Lord and made a “City”. He made the first city that was built by man, the city which was founded by “wandering from the presence of the Lord". But then the wicked seed of Cain increased into a “kingdom”. Nimrud established the “kingdom of Babel” that reigned on earth. This city appears again in Israel's story, and finally in the Book of Revelation. But what is the meaning and significance of this story? This podcast will help! ONLINE COURSES & MEMBERSHIPS

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Hear about UCL Professor Eleanor Robson's research on the ancient city of Nimrud in Iraq and how it enabled cultural heritage organisations, news media and policymakers to understand the site's importance as the world's first imperial capital. Guests Professor Eleanor Robson, Department of History, UCL Louise Haxthausen, UNESCO Representative to the European Union Maryam Maruf, Journalist, BBC World Service Read more here: https://bit.ly/UCLREF2021_heritage Date of episode recording: 05/2022 Duration: 00:36:38 Language of episode: English Presenter: Rosie Anderson Guests: Eleanor Robson Editor: Patrick Robinson

Where did the mythology regarding creation come from? You might be surprised to learn that it can all be tied together and easily seen as originating from the same true event. The Tree of Life and other Biblically accurate creation events appear as common concepts in pagan myths developed after the Tower of Babel. We develop a timeline to look at the history of these myths - their rise and fall. ResourcesTimeline per archaeologists 4300 BC The Flood4200 BC The Tower of Babel3000 BC Akkadian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian creation myths appear2100 BC Gilgamesh (oldest known written literature) 1450-1400 BC Genesis is written by Moses400 BC Alternative creation myths are abandoned 200 BC Dead Sea Scrolls contain some of Genesis in Hebrew3 AD  Two manuscripts combined contain all of Genesis in Greek5 AD Complete manuscript of Genesis in GreekGoogle Searches for photos:"Creation Myths""Temple of Karnak""Hittite tree of life goats""Nimrud tree cherubim"www.thebibleproject.orgVideo The Tree of LifeVideo Series Creation Series (5)Blogpost The Tree of Life Lost But Not Forgotten Podcast series The Tree of Life (10)

Julian looks back over his career. He explains how he developed his interests, and his unusual path into the field. He discusses some key moments: from the excavations at Nimrud, to discoveries in museum collections, and his own excavations at Tell Taya. Who influenced him? What does he think about how things are done? Plus news of his latest work. 3:03 approach to history5:30 origins of interest8:25 archaeological experience13:58 community in Baghdad17:44 PhD life20:43 first job26:26 on the Nimrud excavations33:25 Tell Taya37:12 museum discoveries44:49 displaying Assyrian sculptureMusic by Ruba HillawiWebsite: http://wedgepod.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM7ZlAAgOXv4fbTDRyrWgwEmail: wedgepod@gmail.comTwitter: @wedge_podPatreon: http://Patreon.com/WedgePod

This week in Digging Up Ancient Aliens, We continue to dissect Episode 2 “The Visitors”. The investigation continues with the Zuni people, Huangdi, Annunaki, Zeus, Panspermia, time travel and a junkyard tornado. Unfortunately we won't discuss how perfect bananas are. To be honest it would have been better.  We head out with our host Fredrik once more to discover what is genuine, fake, and somewhere in between. Do depictions of gods in Mesopotamia have wristwatches? Is panspermia the last resort of a dying alien race? What was it with those bananas? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this week's episode.  Links, resources and further reading: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-zuni-way-150866547/ (The Zuni Way) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20067/pg20067-images.html (ZUÑI FETICHES - FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322491 (Panel from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud) http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Probability of Abiogenesis Calculations) http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/physics/the-theory-of-relativity/special-relativity/1017-what-is-time-dilation-intermediate (What is time dilation?)

This is the earliest depiction of and Israelite King, Jehu. It was discovered in 1846 in Nimrud. God bless you! Thank you so much for listening!

Gloria Fossi"L'oggetto misterioso"enigmi, segreti, viaggi nell'arteGiunti Editorehttps://www.giunti.it/Con vena da story-teller, strumenti da storica dell'arte e discipline comparate, passione per mappe geografiche e travelogue, Gloria Fossi racconta in modo avvincente trent'anni di viaggi intorno al mondo sulle tracce di artisti famosi o anonimi artefici, di tutti tempi e paesi, dalla preistoria a oggi. Descrive capolavori e opere meno note, da Washington alle isole Cook, da Parigi a Tahiti, da Stonehenge a Malta alle isole Tonga, dal Mar Rosso e il deserto del Sahara a Istanbul, da Barcellona a Malta, da Madrid ai Caraibi, da Firenze a San Diego, da Los Angeles a Naumburg, da Sarasota a Verona, da Venezia a Lisbona e altrove: quaranta racconti per altrettanti “oggetti misteriosi”, con dettagli insospettabili, illustrati anche da sue fotografie. Una narrazione in qualche caso non priva d'ironia, che nasce da intrecci non improvvisati, ipotesi meditate per anni, frammenti riassemblati, deduzioni, incontri inaspettati, grandi amicizie, amori e scambi di opinione con amici e colleghi. Occhi magnetici, cardellini immortali, statuette preistoriche, cagnolini, rose e fiordalisi, pomeriggi di amanti, ombre cinesi, trecce bionde, bertucce, tandem, automobili d'epoca, gioielli parlanti, rinoceronti, colossali triliti, lapislazzuli e porfidi, detective stories e grande letteratura: enigmi per i quali l'autrice propone associazioni e rimandi a narrazioni antiche, fotografie d'antan, film d'epoca o recentissimi, letteratura di viaggio e fiction, film d'animazione, musica classica e rock. Associazioni solo in apparenza improbabili – Sting e la Sfinge, Federer e Tiepolo, Giotto e le eclissi, Modigliani e un avorio di mammut, Tarkovskj e Leonardo, Jacqueline Kennedy e Ginevra de' Benci, Munch e le nuvole di madreperla, Agatha Christie e gli avori di Nimrud. E molti altri, comprese molte riflessioni sui viaggi che questi capolavori hanno spesso dovuto percorrere, loro malgrado. Con piglio da detective ma solidi strumenti di ricerca, frutto di studi rigorosi, gli “oggetti misteriosi” sono descritti con un linguaggio più vicino alla diaristica di viaggio che al criptico eloquio accademico. Un modo diverso, accessibile, per parlare di arte, renderla vicina e comprensibile, spingendo al viaggio, sempre. Anche se si tratti di andare nel museo più vicino a casa. Enigmi risolti? Forse, non tutti. Ma il bello – sembra dirci Gloria Fossi – può essere anche il doversi arrestare alle soglie del mistero.Gloria Fossi, storica dell'arte medievale e moderna, ha avuto il privilegio di iniziare la carriera lavorando fianco a fianco con Federico Zeri, magistero che le ha permesso di indagare su temi interdisciplinari e relazioni inconsuete, senza pregiudizi accademici. Interessata ai rapporti fra arti figurative e letteratura, ad artisti e scrittori viaggiatori, lei stessa ha girato il mondo sulle loro tracce. Alla sua attività di studiosa e curatrice editoriale, affianca dagli anni Ottanta quella di conferenziera e di autrice di testi divulgativi, guide e cataloghi, fra cui spiccano le numerose pubblicazioni sugli Uffizi, l'arte a Firenze e l'arte italiana. Ha collaborato per la Rai, Il Giornale dell'Arte, La Repubblica, FMR, e dal 1987 scrive su Art e Dossier, dove cura anche una rubrica di recensioni. Per artonline.it scrive di eventi nazionali e internazionali, talvolta con un occhio di riguardo agli interessi dei ragazzi.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

This amazing discovery from 733 BC not only is the earliest mention of Judah, but also mentions a host of other Biblical personages and places. God bless you and thank you for listening! Please join us again tomorrow!

This 1854 slab, now list, but not before a squeeze was made of it, dates from 800 BC. It is in Akkadian cuneiform and mentions Palestine and the house of Omri among other Biblical locales. God bless you and thank you for listening!!

Discovered in 1846 at Nimrud by Austen Henry Layard, this contains a relief of Jehu, son of Omri. It is also the first mention of the Persians. God bless you and thank you so much for listening! Please join us again tomorrow!

This is Part 1 of the amazing city of Calah, mentioned in Genesis 11. A phone call interrupted this low tech operation. God bless you! Thank you for listening! Pray for us!

Thanks for listening! Please forgive the interruption and this being split into 2 sections. Assyrian, Syrian, and Israelite Kings are all mentioned here. We do an extended reading of the obelisk, though the cursive highlighting in the Thompson Chain played tricks with my eyes! Please pray, subscribe, and share. Join us at new life of Albany on YouTube and Facebook!

Histoire des prophètes - 20 - Le prophète Ibrahim - Le débat entre Ibrahim et Nimrud

The numerology people and wiccans know that wiggars were wikkens once and “w” was not around before “we the people...” ask for the facts before throwing Talmud at its creator. I have walked the luminaryans in so many meanings. That dead horse from Damascus is among you. NINI of Nimrud

Conservation is one of the most important and often most misunderstood roles within a museum. In this episode of Object Matters Dr Craig Barker is joined by the Chau Chak Wing Museum's former Conservator Alayne Alvis to discuss the function of conservation and the role of a conservator in the process of collection management and exhibitions. The object the pair discuss dates to c. 730-720 BC and is a Neo Assyrian carved ivory plaque of a female figure that Alayne has worked very closely with. Excavated by Sir Max Mallowan from Fort Shalmaneser at Nimrud in Iraq in the 1950s, the discussion leads from the difference between field conservation and museum conservation, the ethics of working with ivory and the crime writer Agatha Christie's role in the excavation of Assyrian ivories. What can we learn from objects as a result of the close analysis and detailed observations afforded by conservation treatment? Object record: NM59.12. Muse article: Bollen, E. and Alvis, A. (2013) The Mystery of the Nimrud Ivory, MUSE, 5, pp. 15-17 Guest: Alayne Alvis was Conservator for the collections of the University of Sydney for over a decade, and the inaugural Conservator for the Chau Chak Wing Museum.   Host: Dr Craig Barker, Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museumand Director, Paphos Theatre Archaeological Excavations. Follow @DrCraig_B on Twitter and Instagram.  __ Subscribe to Muse Extra, our monthly newsletter and follow @ccwm_sydney on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Learn more about the Chau Chak Wing Museum at sydney.edu.au/museum

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Destruction or Theft? Between 2014 and 2017, the Islamic State group occupied territory in Iraq. At it's height it controlled almost a third of the country and over 4,500 historical sites. Alongside the dramatic pictures of the destruction of artefacts and irreplaceable ancient sites like Nimrud, others have claimed that this destruction was largely carried out to conceal extensive looting of valuable artefacts. Presenters: Laura Adal and Jack Meegan-Vickers Guests: https://thesoufancenter.org/team/colin-p-clarke/ (Colin P. Clarke), Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center and Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. https://www.gcsp.ch/Christina-Schori-Liang (Christina Schori Liang), Head of Terrorism and PVE at GCSP. https://twitter.com/anthropaulicy?lang=en (Katie A. Paul), Co-Director of the http://atharproject.org/ (ATHAR Project)

Salaam Aleikum, Bismillah Rahman nirRahim,Weclome to another Sufi podcast. My name is ibrahim and my post is that of Shaykh, or spiritual guide. This is being recorded during the Time of Isolation: Allah’s Stop, Look and Listen signpost. For many of us, this is a difficult time. It seems like things have gone haywire, off the rails. But from the Divine’s point of view: What a brilliant way to stop pollution, climate catastrophe and runaway greed. And this is not achieved by exterior force or warlords. This halt to all outer activity is accomplished by something so small you need a microscope to see it. As of this time, there is no vaccine or cure. Thousands are dying, millions are sick. We must seek communication through technology- online and phone or wave from a distance.For those of us who work alone like artists, composers, writers, musicians, there is nothing odd or disruptive about this time. As a matter of fact, it is conducive to catching up on practicing and completing long-term projects.For those of us who go out, collaborate, network and congregate, it is shocking and exceedingly disruptive. We are forced to stop and perhaps take the time to look a little more inward and take stock of the path we have chosen, whether it is working - or not - and reflect on what we have learned so far and where we want to go from here.This is an excellent time for us to reflect on our choices, and whether we acted appropriately- and if not, then to apologize to those we may have hurt or abused.Other things to look at: How can I improve my relationships? What am I learning right now? What do I need to learn? How can I connect action and intention? I am reminded by the power of this virus of a story about King Nimrud. “It is narrated that Allah (the Exalted) sent an angel to Nimrud, ordering him to believe in Allah, but he refused. The angel called him to believe a second time, and he refused again; then a third time, and still he refused.The angel said, “Gather your armies and I will gather mine.” Nimrud gathered his army together at the time of sunrise, and Allah sent to him mosquitoes, so many in number, that the people of the army could not even see the sun. Then Allah gave power to the mosquitoes over them: they ate their flesh and blood, leaving them as decomposed bones. One of those mosquitoes entered into the nostrils of the king (Nimrud). Allah punished him by it, and he was in so much pain that he would continually hit his head against objects (hoping to make the mosquito exit or simply because of sheer madness that resulted from the pain) until he finally died.”What gets me about this story, and like today, is that it is the smallest thing that somehow wields the most power. In my view, that is so Allah- busting expectations and making you humble and astonished at the power inherent and compelling when it comes from the Source.Remember, this is just the beginning. We may need to do this for a couple more weeks, so put on your adult pants. Be patient, compassionate, positive when you can. Listen to others more than you speak. Find your inner peace and develop the long view, enjoy and reach out (without touching). This is a time when a lot of us will hit the depression vortex. Be a true friend. Call your buddies and check on them daily. We survive and thrive when we help each other. Support the show (http://www.ansarisufiorder.org)

Michael Rakowitz’s Iraqi heritage is a cultural thread running through much of his art. We follow him at work on a new installment of a long-running project called The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, which creates what he calls ‘ghosts’ of archaeological objects that have been destroyed or looted from Iraq in the 21st century. Sarah Geis follows him throughout the process of recreating carved reliefs which adorned a room of the Northwest Palace of Nimrud, destroyed in 2015 by the Islamic State group. However, he’s not making them from stone but colourful Arabic food packaging and cardboard – for a fast-approaching exhibition. We check back in with Michael in March 2020 to see how the project has progressed.

Vi frågar oss hur mycket man egentligen lär sig om antiken i grundskolan. Och vad de massakrerade världsarven Palmyra och Nimrud kan lära oss för framtiden. Dessutom: Hur är det att vara fladdermus? Det är Kulturredaktionens kritiker Mårten Arndtzén som besöker Michael Rakowitz utställning på Malmö Konsthall, där han återskapar delar av den assyriska högkulturens Nimrud i godispapper, och en utställning med skatter från det förstörda Palmyra på Glyptoteket i Köpenhamn. Vi talar också med gymnasieläraren Cecilia Düringer från podden P3 Historia i debatten om antikundervisningen i skolan - och om att intressera unga för historia i radio. Filmfestivalen Cinemafrica drar också igång i dag i Stockholm. En av festivalens huvudfilmer handlar om den franske psykiatern och debattören Frantz Fanon, som var en viktig röst för den koloniala befrielserörelsen. Journalisten och Fanon-kännaren Nathan Hamelberg kommer till studion och presenterar honom närmare. Vi får också höra den tredje delen av fyra i Helena Granströms långessä för OBS - i dag om förståelse, inlevelse och empati. Bland annat om ifall det finns en möjlighet för oss människor att förstå hur det faktiskt är att vara en fladdermus. Programledare: Gunnar Bolin. Producent: Mattias Berg.

The American sculptor Michael Rakowitz on how his own Iraqi heritage drove him to make art about the disappearance of artefacts and people. From shame to sympathy - New Generation Thinker Emily Cock looks at the way the British State used facial disfigurement to mark criminals for life. Nicholas Jubber has travelled Europe from Iceland to Turkey exploring the popularity of ancient epic tales - and ahead of the British Academy's summer showcase, we hear from Turkey about new ways of involving local villages in the cultural heritage around them.....and how a conversation between primatologists and archaeologists are refining the story of how stone tool use developed. Michael Radowitz Whitechapel Gallery London 4 June 2019 – 25 August 2019 Nicholas Jubber's book 'Epic Continent' out now Emily Cock teaches at Cardiff University and holds a Leverhulme Fellowship for her research project Fragile Faces: Disfigurement in Britain & its Colonies (1600–1850). Isilay Gursu Cultural Heritage Management Fellow British Institute at Ankara and Tomos Proffitt, Institute of Archaeology, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow University College London both appearing in British Academy Summer Showcase 21 - 22 June 2019 https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/ New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio. Image: Michael Rakowitz (portrait) with The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest palace of Nimrud, Room N) 2018 (Photo John Nguyen/PA Wire, Courtesy Whitechapel Gallery) You can hear a discussion of The Odyssey with Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kqjc0 Producer: Jacqueline Smith

This week we talk about the Nimrud lens, non-compound eyes, and EssilorLuxottica.We also discuss Big Lens, transparent medical pricing, and reading stones. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit letsknowthings.substack.com/subscribe

This week we talk about the Nimrud lens, non-compound eyes, and EssilorLuxottica. We also discuss Big Lens, transparent medical pricing, and reading stones. I'm on tour: BecomingTour.com Become a patron on Patreon: patreon.com/letsknowthings For more information about this podcast and to view the show notes, visit letsknowthings.com You can find a list of the books I've written at Colin.io My newest project is called Some Thoughts About Living

With the furores this week over statues, we are republishing this debate from Battle of Ideas 2015. The Islamic State’s attacks on antiquities in Iraq and Syria have caused outrage worldwide. The systematic destruction of ancient archaeological ruins at Nimrud and Palmyra, artefacts at the museum of Mosul, early Christian churches and sacred Shia sites has raised almost as much ire internationally as IS’s barbaric execution of prisoners. Some have even suggested that attacks on cultural artefacts justify increased Western military intervention. The phenomenon has been widely attributed to IS’s strict Islamist doctrine and broad interpretation of what constitutes idolatry. Many have drawn parallels with similar acts of destruction by other Islamic fundamentalists, like the Taliban’s destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001 and the torching of large collections of fifteenth century manuscripts by Malian Islamists in Timbuktu in 2013.  Others have compared IS’s actions to the Christian destruction of idolatry in the Byzantine and Reformation periods, but IS’s war on the culture of the past seems driven by more than religious iconoclasm. Like the brutal beheadings and immolation of prisoners, the destruction of antiquities is designed to shock the West’s sensibilities while proving IS’s barbaric credentials. Destroying the vestiges of past cultures is a way of making a statement about the world IS would like forge.  Understandably, the destruction of irreplaceable relics from early civilizations inspires a special kind of indignation. Yet when contemporary societies try to expunge the past of things of which they disapprove, they face less criticism. This year, South Africa has seen campaigns and vandalism aimed at ridding the country of public symbols of its colonial past, notably statues of Cecil Rhodes and Queen Victoria. The campaign spread to Oxford University in the UK with students demanding the removal of a statues and portraits of Rhodes and former slave holders like Christopher Codrington. Elsewhere in the UK, there is increasing reticence about museum collections acquired during colonial adventures, notably that of the British Museum. While in Ukraine, the Kiev government has ordered the destruction of all Soviet-era statues. Is it a distortion to compare efforts in other countries to rid themselves of icons of colonialism, prejudice and unhealthy habits with IS’s war on civilisation itself? Or do we need to take a stand for preserving the relics of humanity’s past culture in all contexts, whether it makes us uncomfortable or not? Is it problematic that some seem more upset by the destruction of inanimate objects than murders carried out by the ISIS regime?  Does IS’s actions warrant military intervention or the formation of a transnational organisation to protect ancient cultural relics from destruction? What should be done? Speakers   Julian Baggini founding editor, the Philosophers' Magazine; author, Freedom Regained: the possibility of free will and The Ego Trick   Robert Bevan writer; heritage consultant; architecture critic for the London Evening Standard; author, The Destruction of Memory: architecture at war   Dr Tiffany Jenkins academic, columnist, author, Keeping Their Marbles: how treasures of the past ended up in museums and why they should stay there   Dr Sean Lang senior lecturer in history, Anglia Ruskin University; director, Better History Forum   Chair   Rossa Minogue resources editor, Institute of Ideas

Nimrud is a 3,000 year old archaeological site blown up by the so-called Islamic State. The Iraqi archaeologist Muzahim Hossein spent 30 years excavating there, and he goes back for the first time to see what remains. And the story of one Iraqi family who grew up with the temples and talismans of the beautiful, fabled city of Hatra. Including contributions from Layla Salih, Nineveh Heritage Buildings; Alessandra Peruzzetto, World Monuments Fund; and Watha Saleh. Presented by Kanishk Tharoor Produced by Maryam Maruf With thanks to Eleanor Robson, Lamia al-Gailani, Ali Juboori, Mehdi Musawi, Faisal Irshaid, Lucinda Dirven and Roberta Venca. Museum of Lost Objects series two is broadcast on BBC World Service. Image: Gorgon head in Hatra Credit: Getty Images

First off, congratulations on making it to 2017. :) We decided for this episode to just shut up and announce the song titles at the end of the show. That way we can let the music speak for itself. So you'll hear some great music from Wasted Heroes, Digger, Muldjord, Stellarvore, Zombie Destrüktion, Nimrud, Black Autumn, and Pressor. Definitely check this out and kick off 2017 with some of the best Creative Commons metal the net has to offer. (00:25) Living For The Moment by Wasted Heroes from Living For The Moment (BY-SA) (05:16) Digger - Evidence [2009] - Bendalian by Digger from Evidence... is written in the noizz - Full Album (BY-NC-SA) (10:30) The Pebble and the Stone by Muldjord from The Reissue of My Soul (BY-SA) (15:40) L'Année terrible by Stellarvore from L'Orgueil des drapeaux et des flammes (BY-NC-SA) (19:27) Grinding the Spleen by Zombie Destrüktion from Tales of Morbid Mummification (BY-NC-ND) (22:44) Sarahu by Nimrud from Sarahu (BY-NC-SA) (29:29) Rauhnacht MMXVI - II by Black Autumn from Rauhnacht MMXVI (BY-NC-SA) (35:32) Royal Witch by Pressor from Pressor / Diazepam / Soom (BY) Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, head to the shows, or [FUNNY]. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it! If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com. Open Metalcast #145 (MP3) Open Metalcast #145 (OGG)

Kanishk Tharoor goes on the murky trail of the missing Genie of Nimrud – a huge, 3,000-year-old carved figure that once protected a palace; the Winged-Bull of Nineveh, an Assyrian sculpture that guarded the gates of one of the most fabled cities in antiquity; and a looted Sumerian seal stolen in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The Museum of Lost Objects traces the histories of 10 antiquities or cultural sites that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria. The ancient Assyrians were fond of protective spirits. They had sculptures of all manner of mythological creatures lining the walls of their palaces. One such sculpture was a stone relief of a genie. This was a powerful male figure - a bountiful beard and muscular thighs but with huge wings sprouting from his back. Three thousand years ago, it adorned the walls of Nimrud, one of the great strongholds of Mesopotamia, near Mosul in modern day Iraq. During the 1990s, this genie disappeared - believed to have been taken during the chaos of the first Gulf war - and ended up in London around 2002 - just before the mire of the second Gulf war. It's been kept by Scotland Yard for these last 14 years - locked in legal limbo, and unlikely to ever re-emerge or return to Iraq. We explore the cost of looting to a country's cultural heritage, and tell the story of another valuable Mesopotamian antiquity that was looted, eventually uncovered, but managed to stay in Iraq. This is a tablet, and holds a new chapter from the oldest tale ever told - the Gilgamesh epic. Contributors: Mark Altaweel, Institute of Archaeology UCL; Augusta McMahon, University of Cambridge; Mina al-Lami, BBC Monitoring; the readings are by Martin Worthington, George Watkins, and Susan Jameson Presenter: Kanishk Tharoor Producer: Maryam Maruf Picture: Assyrian winged-genie from Nimrud, very similar in style to the genie in possession of Scotland Yard Credit: Brooklyn Museum With thanks to Vernon Rapley of the V&A, Sarah Collins of the British Museum, Andrew George of SOAS, and John Russell of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

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