The ancient Romans had a practice called Demnaccio Memori, which was to banish someone's memory from public life.

It was also sometimes known as oblivion.

It called for the complete deletion of the person's name or image from all statues, inscriptions, coins, and text.

While the practice neither began nor ended with the Romans, they are the ones who gave it the name we use today.

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The Romans gave us the term Demnatio Mamore,

but the practice dates back well before Rome.

Admittedly, it's difficult to determine a history for someone removing someone from history

because if they were successful, we'd have no idea that it never happened.

However, there are several examples we know of from history

because their attempts at Arrasher left marks.

The earliest known example was the Egyptian Pharaoh Hasepsut,

who was born in 1478 BC.

One of the very few female rulers of ancient Egypt,

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