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Sunday, January 16, 2005

Canoe | Ancient Babylon's bricks crushed by tanks - Brits

"The British Museum said U.S. and Polish forces in Iraq have crushed part of ancient Babylon's 2,600-year-old brick paved streets with their tanks and used soil containing archeological artifacts to fill sandbags. The museum is concerned U.S.-led troops, including U.S. marines and the Polish force who have occupied the ancient Mesopotamian capital, have inflicted widespread damage to the ancient centre of civilization, said a report released yesterday.
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Images of dragons on the moulded brick foundations of the famous Ishtar Gate were marred by cracks and gaps where someone tried to remove them, the report said."


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