The extent of the looting
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From dangerousmeta comes a link to this story about the extent of the Iraqi archaeological lootings (which is still not completely known).
Archaeologists review loss of valuable artifacts one year after looting
By William HarmsThe loss in archaeological data is impossible to quantify but clearly has reached disastrous dimensions. Although coalition forces have taken measures to protect some of the key sites in Iraq, archaeologists contend those measures have been inadequate.
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Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2004.04.21 (Wed) • 10:00
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Posted by kevin 2004.04.22, 21:52
Interesting commentary about this on Talk of the Nation this week.
( Scroll down to “Biblical Iraq” )
It’s about how so many places from the bible are being destroyed. The birthplace of writing, where Abraham was born, where the tower of Babel was, the place where the Garden of Eden was supposed to be, (there is actually a park where it may have been called the Garden of Eden). They mention how although we think of it as loosing the answers to so many questions, the archiologists see it as
“The great thing about archeology is that as your doing excavations, you come upon questions you never thought of, and we’ll never even know what questions to ask”They say that the yet-unexcavated sites that are being looted could have rewritten the history books hundreds of times over.
They also make note of how the the passage in the Bible
“By the rivers of Babalon we sat and wept”Is just as relevant today, since no one can stand there and not weep for all the destruction.
Posted by Newfred 2004.04.27, 03:53
It’s a total disaster that the looting was ever allowed to happen and, unfortunately, shows how badly the whole operation was planned. To think that so many years of work, which had to be halted because of the West’s isolation of Iraq, has now been lost as a result of ending that. Perhaps it was a command straight from the top — after all, George W. doesn’t like all this biblical criticism does he?
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