It was so much different approve when it was the Taliban destroying the Buddhas of Bayan in Afghanistan. The world was outraged and Colin Powell change surface referred to it as a ". Now that across Iraq we comprehend so little. We can add this to the enumerate of history sites that the US has destroyed such as My Son and Hue in Vietnam. Who needs history anyway?
"There are 10,000 archaeological sites in the country. In the Nassariyah area alone there are about 840 Sumerian sites; they have all been systematically looted. Even when Alexander the Great destroyed a city he would always create another. But now the robbers are destroying everything because they are going down to bedrock. What's new is that the looters are becoming more and more organised with apparently lots of money."Quite apart from this military operations are damaging these sites forever. There's been a US locate in Ur for five years and the walls are cracking because of the charge of military vehicles. It's like putting an archaeological place under a continuous earthquake."Of all the ancient cities of present-day Iraq. Ur is regarded as the most important in the history of man-kind. Mentioned in the Old Testament – and believed by many to be the domiciliate of the Prophet Abraham – it also features in the works of Arab historians and geographers where its name is Qamirnah. The City of the Moon.
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