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Between Past and Present: Archaeology, Ideology, and Nationalism in the Modern Middle East
285 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 1990
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July 27, 2012
After translating and reading some books about Archeology, I'm interested in this field. The more I read about it the more I feel fascinated to its history, how it's influenced and influences the history, how the nations are looking for its identity with the aide of the archaeological research.
In this aspect, this book gives some examples from different countries and explains how the archeology helps the nations to make its identity. Every items the archaeologists find, the epigraphs decode, and the linguists analyze, is a part of our ethnic identity and it's interesting when you know how much is invested for this type of research, it's just a business for every nation.
The first chapter is about Macedonia and how its language and identity has been changed during the history. What we know today as Macedonia is not where Alexander the great grew up and headed the Macedonian and Greek army to attack the Eastern territories, especially Persia. Today it's a controversial land and there is a religious conflict between the Muslim and Christian communities, the Slave and non Slave communities etc.
The second chapter talk about how the archaeologists tried to find the Troy's ruins in Hisalik Tepe. However, in Twentieth century, some archaeologists found out how the first scholars manipulated the information and the first findings were lost during the Second World War.
In this aspect, this book gives some examples from different countries and explains how the archeology helps the nations to make its identity. Every items the archaeologists find, the epigraphs decode, and the linguists analyze, is a part of our ethnic identity and it's interesting when you know how much is invested for this type of research, it's just a business for every nation.
The first chapter is about Macedonia and how its language and identity has been changed during the history. What we know today as Macedonia is not where Alexander the great grew up and headed the Macedonian and Greek army to attack the Eastern territories, especially Persia. Today it's a controversial land and there is a religious conflict between the Muslim and Christian communities, the Slave and non Slave communities etc.
The second chapter talk about how the archaeologists tried to find the Troy's ruins in Hisalik Tepe. However, in Twentieth century, some archaeologists found out how the first scholars manipulated the information and the first findings were lost during the Second World War.
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