Posted on 06/13/2006 10:16:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Located northeast of ancient Nineveh on the eastern bank of the Tigris River in modern-day Mosul, the almost 2,700-year-old Khinnis site, also known as the Bavian site, highlights the geographical start of a impressive engineering feat of ancient Assyrian culture. It remains important to the Assyrian Christian people of Iraq, historically traceable to the Mesopotamian cradle of civilisation... During the recent trip by ISDP -- a special project launched by the Chicago-based Assyrians Academic Society, with members worldwide -- the delegation not only observed the damage caused by tourism, including visitors having chipped off pieces from the rock carvings, but also noted bullet holes, indicating that the reliefs have been used for target practice... According to Firas Jatou, a member of the delegation, Kurdish authorities have ordered a small construction company to use dynamite to carve out caves in the sun-spotted rocks to create shade for the picnickers. Jatou said the work has been sanctioned by Jarjis Hasan Khinnis, a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) led by the president of the Autonomous Kurdish Government in Iraq, Massoud Barzani.
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This is the region where the Northern Tribes Of Israel were exiled too.
Remember the flap about the Taliban shooting at (and then blowing up) those Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
I'm pretty sure there are some threads about it as well.
Yes, I remember those threads, this was all pre-9-11 when the Taliban destroyed those priceless statues. It was very sad to read.
The rest of the article was quite informative also.
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