U.S.-Led Forces Damaged Ancient Babylon
In the list of all things FUBAR this probably isn't up near the top... still....

The report said U.S. and Polish military vehicles had crushed 2,600-year-old pavements in the city, a cradle of civilization and home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Archaeological fragments were used to fill sand bags, it added.

"This is tantamount to establishing a military camp around the Great Pyramid in Egypt or around Stonehenge in Britain," John Curtis, keeper of the museum's Ancient and Near East department

U.S.-Led Forces Damaged Ancient Babylon-Report
- posted by Anonymous @ Monday, January 17, 2005