TIL from A Tale of Three Cities, a book about Istanbul: What’s happening in Gaza is a really old, pre-Islamic pattern “The Marneion…was set afire with pitch, sulfur and fat

TIL from A Tale of Three Cities, a book about Istanbul: What’s happening in Gaza is a really old, pre-Islamic pattern “The Marneion…was set afire with pitch, sulfur and fat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Porphyrius

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I’m reading this book too! I’m reading about the Goths