Shriek! I can't believe American soldiers are this stupid! How is what they have done any different than the Taliban and their attack on Afghan Buddhas? Do they not know that the Ishtar Gate can be found in every art history book published? Are they so goddamn ignorant that they would treat the priceless legacies of human history like they were fucking public urinals? I am so disgusted with these so-called American heroes. Flame me if you want to. Those monuments were worth ANY of their stupid worthless lives. And they may well have been worth more than anything our civilization has ever contributed.
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British Museum says U.S.-led troops damaged ancient Iraqi city of Babylon
By Sue Leeman, Associated Press, 1/15/2005 11:05
LONDON (AP) 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.
''This is tantamount to establishing a military camp around the Great Pyramid in Egypt or around Stonehenge in Britain,'' Curtis said in the report.
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