"U.S.-Led Soldiers Said to Damage Babylon"

[GreenPartyVoter]

LONDON - U.S.-led troops using the ancient Iraqi city of Babylon as a base have damaged and contaminated artifacts dating back thousands of years in one of the world's most important archaeological sites, the British Museum said Saturday.

For example, military vehicles crushed a 2,600-year-old brick pavement, and archaeological fragments, including broken bricks stamped by King Nebuchadnezzar II around the same time, were scattered across the site, a museum report said.

The dragons at the Ishtar Gate were marred by cracks and gaps where someone tried to remove their decorative bricks, the paper said.

John Curtis, keeper of the British Museum's Near East department, who was invited by the Iraqis to study the site, also found that large quantities of sand mixed with archaeological fragments have been taken from the site to fill military sandbags.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=6&u=/ap/20050115/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_babylon_2

[medeak]

1. thank you yahoo...

finally msm will pick this up.

[benburch]

2. And who is The Whore Of Babylon?

I say it is Bush.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Given all the tin foil hat prophecies and the Bu$hwa intent to

bring on Armageddon, I would not be surprised that they did this on purpose.

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[luaptifer]

3. new twist on meaning of "New World Order" huh?

not only a rewrite of history, but of the archeological record itself, near the very start of it!