EDITORIAL - Then and now
Anyone who has ever published anything will recognize the feeling of getting that first copy back from the printer. It’s a great feeling, and then you open it up and spot a typo or realize you should have done something differently. It’s good to be critical of your own work, I’m sure. If you’re in magazine publishing it can be strangely startling to look at a copy that, by the time you see it, feels old already while the next edition is clamouring for attention. It’s different with issues from a long time ago, however.
Incidental articles excepted, we’ve only had an Assyrian theme once before. That was issue V-4, published in 2011. It feels like rediscovering my own work. It looks different, that’s for sure, and we cover different ground in this issue. You might say they complement each other... and that’s a good thing. Checking the further reading in this issue and V-4, there were, and still are, very few easily accessible recent books about the Assyrians. I’d like a few myself in fact. Sean Manning’s call to action in this issue’s introduction ensures that I’ll henceforth look differently at
