Comments on: The damage done to Babylon http://www.ablogabouthistory.com/2009/07/10/the-damage-done-to-babylon/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:44:13 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: uberVU - social comments http://www.ablogabouthistory.com/2009/07/10/the-damage-done-to-babylon/comment-page-1/#comment-553 uberVU - social comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:32:41 +0000 http://www.ablogabouthistory.com/?p=2051#comment-553 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by historytweeter: #history The damage done to Babylon http://tinyurl.com/mzqcdm... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: kickerofelves http://www.ablogabouthistory.com/2009/07/10/the-damage-done-to-babylon/comment-page-1/#comment-82 kickerofelves Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:10:33 +0000 http://www.ablogabouthistory.com/?p=2051#comment-82 I was located at the Babylon location for a year. While I was there the sensitive areas were off limits to all U.S. troops and access was allowed only via the Iraqi maintainers of the site. This was 2004, and U.S. troops were joined by Polish troops on the nearby site. Saddam had dramatically disturbed the site's location, even digging up areas to get to the building material buried below to use to 'recreate' his own vision of Babylon. To then accuse the U.S. troops after Saddam's people dug the location up, re-used the ancient material and built a huge mansion on an equally huge artificial hill and complex right next to it seems to be a bit dishonest. This is the rebuilt palace by Saddam's people using recovered material without regard to archeological disturbance: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/18/world/18babyron.xlarge1.jpg This is Saddam's mansion and artificial hill--the ruins are immediately to the left of it. Imagine the damage and upheaval to the area that occurred during its building. http://www.arcent.army.mil/cflcc_today/2003/april/images/apr14_17/16_02.jpg Here is a bird's eye view. In the upper left the road curving up to the top follows the bottom of the hill that the mansion is up high on on the upper left corner. You can see how near the ruins it was built. http://blog.bibleplaces.com/uploaded_images/Google_Earth_Babylon-724261.jpg And Americans are being blamed for disturbing the area? Incredible. I was located at the Babylon location for a year. While I was there the sensitive areas were off limits to all U.S. troops and access was allowed only via the Iraqi maintainers of the site. This was 2004, and U.S. troops were joined by Polish troops on the nearby site.

Saddam had dramatically disturbed the site’s location, even digging up areas to get to the building material buried below to use to ‘recreate’ his own vision of Babylon.

To then accuse the U.S. troops after Saddam’s people dug the location up, re-used the ancient material and built a huge mansion on an equally huge artificial hill and complex right next to it seems to be a bit dishonest.

This is the rebuilt palace by Saddam’s people using recovered material without regard to archeological disturbance: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/04/18/world/18babyron.xlarge1.jpg

This is Saddam’s mansion and artificial hill–the ruins are immediately to the left of it. Imagine the damage and upheaval to the area that occurred during its building. http://www.arcent.army.mil/cflcc_today/2003/april/images/apr14_17/16_02.jpg

Here is a bird’s eye view. In the upper left the road curving up to the top follows the bottom of the hill that the mansion is up high on on the upper left corner. You can see how near the ruins it was built.

http://blog.bibleplaces.com/uploaded_images/Google_Earth_Babylon-724261.jpg

And Americans are being blamed for disturbing the area? Incredible.

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