Friday, 1 May 2009

Ruins of Babylon Ruined

Babylon ‘will never recover from Iraq war’

In the Old Testament, Babylon is destroyed by God as a punishment for the decadence and cruelty of its inhabitants. But a new disaster has befallen the ancient metropolis - coalition troops serving in Iraq are accused of causing irreversible damage to what is one of the world’s most important archaeological sites.

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Al Jazeera