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  • June 19, 2020 at 11:41 am #13864
    Loch
    Spectator

    I think that it is generally agreed that Ozymandias was inspired by the Egyptian Pharoah Ramesses II.

    Very nice to hear from you Marjan . Hope you are well.
    Loch

    June 24, 2020 at 9:24 pm #13865
    John
    Blocked

    Just catching up on this and weirdly also started watching it last week. Drawn by a dear friend who passed this year but visited often and also said great things about Iran and it’s people…and of course we know Marjan ! 🙂 would love to visit

    June 24, 2020 at 11:07 pm #13866
    Andrew
    Spectator

    I seem to recall from school the phrase “cradle of civilisation”. And I’m fairly sure I read in Jared Diamond**. — still 20 years ago — that the climate was wetter in the middle east some 4000 years ago. The ease of creating an agricultural surplus enabled tribes in that zone to support extra people who did not till the fields. Kings, Judges, accountants. I’ve often felt sad that Persia /Iran is on such bad terms with the west
    ANDREW
    ** Guns, Germs, and Steel. a short history of the last13,000 years. 1997. Pulitzer Prize.

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