It was good to read Professor Ed Turner's remark that, in hindsight, it may have been better for astronomy as a whole not to put the Institute in Princeton. The outcome has certainly had an enormous positive effect on Johns Hopkins. After consulting numerous Assyriological and Egyptological resources, I can say with some certainty that the blame for this new design does not rest on the civilizations of Near Eastern Antiquity. However, I have heard that Rome changed her logo just before the Goths arrived. The photographer was Richard Krauss.
PAW regrets the errors.