An exhibit at the Roman Colosseum that ended last December recreated some of the recently damaged or destroyed monuments in the Middle East. Curated by Paolo Matthiae of the Sapienza University of Rome and Italian politician Francesco Rutelli, the exhibit, Rising from the Ashes, featured full-scale recreations of three prominent monuments: the 24th-century B.C.E. Great Archive Room from Ebla (in modern Syria) with its cuneiform tablets inscribed in a West Semitic language akin to Hebrew, a ninth-century B.C.E. colossal sculpture of a human-headed, winged bull deity from the Northwest Palace in the Assyrian capital city of Nimrud (Iraq) and […]
