Thursday, June 26, 2008

Expo of Greatest Babylon Treasures Opens in Berlin

A touring exhibition of the greatest surviving treasures of ancient Babylon
opens Thursday in the German capital Berlin at the Pergamon Museum, which
already has one of the world's richest Babylonian collections.


Oh, but here's the fun part:

Exhibition designers said the 1,000 items on display illustrated the vast
cultural heritage of Iraq and would explore why western culture falsely
associated Babylonian civilization with evil, with a Biblical tradition
describing the city as the "Whore of Babylon."


Falsely? !?!

My, these folks are full of themselves.

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