Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen, must go back to Iraq

Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by billfruit on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:30AM (#23244620)

Much of Roman Africa was in a state of deterioration due to Christan invaders like Visigoths(I think) who overrun the Roman African provinces towards the decline of the Western Roman Empire.

At the time of the expansion of Islam, there was no longer even a Western Roman Empire.

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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by billfruit on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:27AM (#23247176)

I should have said Vandals instead of Visigoths. The Vandals ruled over Africa during and after the end of the Western Roman Empire.

Later in one of the most dashing military campaigns, the Eastern Roman Empire(Byzantines) forces under Belisarius captured most of the territory of the former Western Roman Empire, including the African provinces after defeating Vandals. The African provinces were then organized into the Exarchate, which is what Muslim armies eventually overcame in the 690s AD.

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