IT IN place

Walking through the Brooklyn Museum today, I came upon a bunch of reliefs with cuniform across the bodies… it caught my eyes for obvious reasons. Turned out they were Assyrian from a town not far from Baghdad. It was impossible to look at them without thinking about the looting of Iraqi museums. Talk about dropping the ball… or something that won’t bounce, like a rock.

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