We had only these monuments, which are now fading".
That's especially true of inscriptions on public monuments, which are mostly written to glorify kings.
Meticulous research allowed him to pinpoint the location of major monuments, which were quickly uncovered.
The removal of the monuments, which included a 15,000-pound obelisk, happened under police guard.
Vie Nuove launched a campaign to catalogue Fascist monuments, which it called "L'Italia da Cancellare" ("The Italy to Erase").
Some Salafi leaders have expressed disregard, and even hostility, toward Egypt's pre-Islamic relics and monuments, which they consider pagan.
"That's why preserving these monuments, which are actually a man-made heritage, is extremely important for us," Mr. Zaazou said.
False monuments which smooth over death and therefore the life that came before it, he told us, are bizarre liars.
It's also a comment on the fact that we are still making war monuments, which I find rather tacky.
Vie Nuove _launched a campaign to catalogue Fascist monuments, which it called "L'Italia da Cancellare" ("The Italy to Erase").
I understand the impulse to remove Confederate monuments, which embody some of the most repulsive aspects of the American past.
