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EXCLUSIVE: Filed on March 29, 2003
Most of the captions explaining the artifacts refer to them as coming from "Mesopotamia", "Assyria", or "Babylon". You have to really look for the word "Iraq". This amazing oversight is especially shocking when one considers that the country that produced the world's first written language, and many other important milestones in the development of human history and civilization, is currently being bombed by US-UK led allied forces to the tune of thousands of sorties a day. It is fair to ask whether most of the thousands of daily visitors to the museum are even aware that the wondrous remnants of human heritage that they are seeing were actually produced by the ancestors of the very same people who are now facing the wrath of Mr Bush and Mr Blair. And another important question also arises: how much of that heritage will remain once the bombing comes to an end?
Photos and text by Tarek Atia
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mid-February tour by shrinkingglobe.com of the British Museum in London
revealed a very interesting phenomenon. Despite the fact that a great deal
of space at the museum is dedicated to displays of amazing artifacts from
the Mesopotamian region , celebrating its groundbreaking ancient
civilizations, very little mention is made of the fact that these artifacts mainly
came from what is present day Iraq.