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Show 63 - Supernova in the East II

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

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The Assyrian King's Style

A lot of what the assyrians carved into stone, including their version of photos, write art work with commentary and statements by the king was a court style after a while. Go check out the killing fields. N you know what? Why didn't they take photos? Full color? Blow em up and put em all around the town and send some to the foreign media outlets too. That's what an assyrian king would have done back in the iron age. Get a guy like senacarib going to level a place like babylon, and then he's going to make sure everyone knows about it in detail.

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