Posted on 03/24/2010 6:22:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A current study, known as the Future of Babylon project, documents the damage from water mainly associated with the Euphrates River and irrigation systems nearby. The ground is saturated just below the surface at sites of the Ishtar Gate and the long-gone Hanging Gardens, one of the seven wonders. Bricks are crumbling, temples collapsing. The Tower of Babel, long since reduced to rubble, is surrounded by standing water.
Leaders of the international project, describing their findings in interviews and at a meeting this month in New York, said that any plan for reclaiming Babylon as a tourist attraction and a place for archaeological research must include water control as "the highest priority."
The study, aimed at developing a master plan for the ancient city, was begun last year by the World Monuments Fund in collaboration with Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. A $700,000 grant from the United States Department of State is financing the initial two-year study and preliminary management plan. An official of the monuments fund said the entire effort could last five or six years.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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Moved to Babylonia, King Tut. Some topics will be great for sociology students, and this may turn out to be one of those topics. |
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Whoops! [blush] Thanks Pharmboy for the link in FReepmail!
I am not reading a article from NYT..
I do think Climate Change might have started earlier than reported..........
Hail the day so long expected,
Hail the year of full release.
Zion's walls are now erected,
And her watchmen publish peace.
Through the shiloh's wide dominion
Hear the trumpets loudly roar:
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen,
Baylon is fallen to rise no more.
My pleasure, SC...you are our Delphic Oracle (feeling Hellenic tonight...had dinner with Greek-American friends at a Greek restaurant). The feta was outstanding...
2 words. Neutron bombs.
(My bro says it is a great place for that vacation home.)
Good song!
:’) Sounds like that restaurant feta hungry group of Americans tonight.
:’) Never stopped changing. :’)
“A $700,000 grant from the United States Department of State”
Why does it always have to be OUR money?!?!?
Here, light this Cuban cigar with this $100 bill, you’ll feel better.
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