"We Christians are the ancient inhabitants of this land, not only in Iraq but throughout the Middle East. Our presence…"

"The acquisition of monuments and works of art that were shipped to London, Paris and Berlin in the mid-nineteenth cen…"

"Since human civilisation was thought to originate in Mesopotamia, and this civilisation was transferred from the East…"

"Archaeology, like other human sciences such as anthropology and history, allowed a European mapping of the subjugated…"

"This obsessive desire to disassociate the past of the region from its present and to present it instead as a primitiv…"

"The image of Mesopotamia, upon which we still depend, was necessary for a march of progress from East to West, a conc…"

"The creation of a historical narrative in which space and time became transcendental horizons for the Being—Mesopotam…"

"Within this disciplinary organisation the term that came to be the acceptable name for Iraq in the Pre-Islamic period…"