February 2013

This week in the war of history

A few victories and a major defeat for the protection of our past.

The war for the past is fought every day in every country.  It is fought for by the people who want to preserve our history and culture and by those who see profits or misguided ideology as the best answer.  And every day that the war is fought, there are more casualties.  Not necessarily casualties of human lives, but losses of sites and artifacts that can never be replaced.  Like every fight, there are victories and losses.  Here are a few of the highligh

History and fraud

How much does the need to be right influence the truth of history?

Browsing through the latest archaeological finds (as I am wont to do), I sought to find out what the explorers of history had stumbled across this week. Instead, I came across an interesting and somewhat disturbing story that revolves around a man by the name of Simcha Jacobovici.