ARKY 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: List Of Kings Of Babylon
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The state being involved in interpretation for tie own purposes. There is a long tradition of using archaeology to celebrate a nation state. In the 19th century, you would go to egypt, get an obelisk, and this was thus a claim to being a dominant world culture. Thus, it was an important part of european city architecture and urban planning. There is a connection that the americans make in their political architecture because of the grecian democracy. Americans are not the only ones to do this, of course. Fases; the rod an ancient roman emperor would hold that gave them the power to decide between life and death. Mussolini rose to power on an explicit campaign to bring italy back to the glory of ancient roman times. Thus there was a connection to ancient rome and italy of the 1930s. They used the roman eagle symbol for their army and symbol to make this connection.
