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>Subject: WWW: Iraq - The cradle of civilization at risk (H-Museum's
> Current Focus)
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>Dear Madams and Sirs, dear Colleagues,
>
>Today H-Museum presents its new current focus:
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>Iraq - The cradle of civilization at risk.
>Cultural heritage and historical monuments.
>
>http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~museum/iraq.html
>
>The current focus contains:
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>Introduction, Iraq News Digests, Selected Articles and Documents, Journals
>and Magazines, Museums/Collections/Institutions, Online-Resources
>
>The current focus looks from a cultural and historical perspective at
>present developments concerning the military conflict in Iraq. Included are
>also special editions of the News Digest, which contains articles from the
>time of the first Gulf War to the present dealing with the historical
>monuments, archaeological sites, and museums in Iraq.
>
>Iraq is a country with a rich history. A great number of monuments of the
>history of civilization, archaeological sites, and museums are situated on
>the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and in other areas. Already in 1990/91,
>during the first Gulf War, these historical monuments and other places of
>historical importance were put at direct risk by military action as well as
>by the abuse as Iraqi military positions. The war in Iraq in 2003 again
>exposes these historical monuments and other places of historical interest
>to great danger. War always carries with it not only suffering and misery
>for the population but also always hurts the cultural and historical
>evidence.
>
>Present-day Iraq occupies the greater part of the ancient land of
>Mesopotamia, the plain between Euphrates and Tigris rivers. Some of the
>world's greatest ancient civilizations were developed in this area.
>Therefore the region is often referred to as the cradle of mankind.
>Present-day Iraq possesses a huge amount of historical monuments and
>archaeological sites, e. g. Niniveh, the seat of government of the 7th
>century BC king Assurbarnipal; Ur, where the Sumerian civilization had its
>final flowering at the close of the 3rd millennium BC and where according to
>the Bible Abraham was born; Uruk, the scene of the Gilgamesh Epic; the
>Parthian desert city of Hatra, which is on the UNESCO's list of cultural
>world heritage; Assur, the first capital of the Assyrian kingdom with the
>famous Ishtar temple; and Babylon, in the 18th century BC the seat of king
>Hammurabi, who is primarily remembered for his codification of the laws
>governing Babylonian life.
>
>Experts guess that there are about 100,000 sites of cultural and historical
>importance in Iraq, most of them not yet excavated; about 10,000 are known.
>However, the cultural heritage of Iraq is primarily Arabic. One of these
>famous Islamic monuments is the 55 meters high spiraling minaret of the
>great mosque in Sumarra, built in 850 AD. In addition this land is the home
>of the three world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Ralf Blank, Stephanie Marra
>
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