Babylon damaged by military occupation; Hague convention violated by U.S. war
by daemmern, Sat Jan 15, 2005 at 07:38:13 AM EST
The Guardian reports here, here and here on significant damage to one of the world's most famous archeological sites -- Babylon.
"Outrage is hardly the word, this is just dreadful," said Lord Redesdale, an archaeologist and head of the all-party parliamentary archaeological group. "These are world sites. Not only is what the American forces are doing damaging the archaeology of Iraq, it's actually damaging the cultural heritage of the whole world."
Archeologists worldwide are horrified:
"Outrage is hardly the word, this is just dreadful," said Lord Redesdale, an archaeologist and head of the all-party parliamentary archaeological group. "These are world sites. Not only is what the American forces are doing damaging the archaeology of Iraq, it's actually damaging the cultural heritage of the whole world."
Tim Schadla Hall, reader in public archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, said: "In this case we see an international conflict in which the US has failed to take into account the requirements of the Hague convention ... to protect major archaeological sites - just another convention it seems happy to ignore."
More in my diary at Kos. Link to ICOMOS , the International Council on Monuments and Sites, for the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
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