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Rebuilding Nimrud
Nov. 14th, 2016 03:48 pmvia http://ift.tt/2exUYLr:
People are getting behind the idea of rebuilding the various historical sites ISIS took a giant shit on. This is a great idea, but in my mind, it doesn’t go far enough.
Look, the only reason we don’t rebuild most ruins is that they have value as historical artifacts, but if the site has been entirely trashed, well- what have we got to lose?
Let’s rebuild it completely.
As it was more than 2,000 years ago.
Let’s get scientists, builders, historians and archaeologists together and get a decent plan of what the temple might have looked like when it had been completed, and then build that muthafucker.
This has two great points, firstly it will be a great exercise in living history, exploring how it was first built and allowing tourists to interact not with ruins, but real depictions of what it looked like in it’s heyday.
And two, it’ll really put ISIS off doing this again.
Look, those concussed lobsters thought they were destroying history and idolatry by blowing up Nimrud. There is no bigger fuck you that bringing it back bigger and better than ever. If they start thinking that for every ruin they blow up, we’ll build a perfect replica of the full original, idolatrous object in question, they might just give up.
People are getting behind the idea of rebuilding the various historical sites ISIS took a giant shit on. This is a great idea, but in my mind, it doesn’t go far enough.
Look, the only reason we don’t rebuild most ruins is that they have value as historical artifacts, but if the site has been entirely trashed, well- what have we got to lose?
Let’s rebuild it completely.
As it was more than 2,000 years ago.
Let’s get scientists, builders, historians and archaeologists together and get a decent plan of what the temple might have looked like when it had been completed, and then build that muthafucker.
This has two great points, firstly it will be a great exercise in living history, exploring how it was first built and allowing tourists to interact not with ruins, but real depictions of what it looked like in it’s heyday.
And two, it’ll really put ISIS off doing this again.
Look, those concussed lobsters thought they were destroying history and idolatry by blowing up Nimrud. There is no bigger fuck you that bringing it back bigger and better than ever. If they start thinking that for every ruin they blow up, we’ll build a perfect replica of the full original, idolatrous object in question, they might just give up.
