Land of Lost Gods https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2014/08/land-of-lost-gods/

August 22, 2014 | Tom Holland
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For millennia, Mesopotamia has teemed with a variety of cults and religions. ISIS is destroying the few that remain.

Read more on Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9293702/isiss-plans-for-the-fertile-crescent-once-a-womb-of-gods/