Oh what have we done to Babylon!

[donsu]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050115/wl_nm/iraq_babylon_dc


U.S.-led forces, using Iraq (news - web sites)'s ancient city of Babylon as a military base, have caused "substantial damage" to one of the world's most renowned archaeological treasures, a British Museum report said.

The report said U.S. and Polish military vehicles had crushed 2,600-year-old pavements in the city, a cradle of civilization and home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Archaeological fragments were used to fill sand bags, it added.

-snip-

Curtis, invited to visit Babylon by Iraqi antiquities experts, said he had found cracks and gaps made by people who had apparently tried to gouge out the decorated bricks forming the famous dragons of the city's Ishtar Gate.

-snip-

In the report, Curtis described the decision to set up a base in the area as "regrettable."

"Babylon is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world and the damage caused by the military camp is a further blow for the cultural heritage of Iraq," he said.
-snip-
---------------------------------


and the world watches

[burythehatchet]

1. its not the history of the white European, it doesn't matter.

get over it.

[mitchtv]

2. the Ugly American

further confimation

[eleonora]

3. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2955589&mesg_id=2955589&page=

[orpupilofnature57]

4. We are Babylon.