Sunday, October 20, 2013

News for our readers in CANADA

"Now on display at the Royal Ontario Museum, Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World showcases hundreds of artifacts illustrating the achievements of these ancient empires. Highlights include a lyre with a bearded bull’s head and inlaid panel from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, a rare surviving Assyrian sculpture in the round depicting King Ashurnasirpal II, and a terracotta relief of a striding lion that once adorned the palace of Babylon’s Nebuchadnezzar II, who famously conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple and exiled the Jews to Babylon." BibleHistoryDaily

Through January 5, 2014
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ashurnasirpal II
His harshness prompted a revolt that he crushed decisively in a pitched, two-day battle.
According to his monument inscription while recalling this massacre he says
"their men young and old I took prisoners.
Of some I cut off their feet and hands;
of others I cut off the ears noses and lips;
of the young men's ears I made a heap;
of the old men's heads I made a marinet.
I exposed their heads as a trophy in front of their city.
The male children and the female children I burned in flames;
the city I destroyed, and consumed with fire."
Wikipedia

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily,
 therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Ecclesiastes 8:11