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Date: 2021-02-27 06:24 pm (UTC)Though the Tumblr thread makes some good points, I would also add that it's a pretty big overgeneralization to say that "if you want to know what happened to sculptures from antiquity, Abrahamic faiths happened to them". In Egyptian history, at least, purposeful destruction and defacing of artifacts long predates the involvement of Abrahamic faiths. An example would be the religious upheavals associated with the reign of Akhenaten--long story short, he banned the traditional polytheistic worship and ordered many religious sites and inscriptions to be defaced, but later he and his ideas fell out of favor and his political opponents defaced his monuments and erased his name from inscriptions. This all happened in the 14th century BCE.
But I guess it just goes to prove the point, yet again, that social media posts aren't necessarily a strong basis for gaining a full and nuanced understanding of academic topics.