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"The World Monuments Fund [has] received $100,000 from NEH to develop
a system to record and manage information related to the cultural
resources of Iraq. The project is being developed in cooperation
with the Getty Conservation Institute and UNESCO."
"Tracking Lost Empires"
A New Database Documents Iraqi Sites
By Emmett Berg and Louisa Woodville
In 140 B.C.E. the Greek poet Antipater of Sidon composed a list
of seven architectural wonders. He included the Hanging Gardens of
Babylon and the city's impregnable walls, fortifications so broad
that there was "room for a four-horse chariot to turn," according to
the historian Herodotus.
Now another list is being compiled by the World Monuments Fund, a
nonprofit that works to safeguard and preserve endangered historical
sites. Its project will catalog more than ten thousand Iraqi
locations, including Babylon, which the seventh-century B.C.E. ruler
Nebuchadnezzar made famous and that Saddam Hussein recently
reconstructed; Nimrud, site of the ninth century B.C.E. Palace
of Ashurbanipal II, with reliefs showcasing the king's might;
Samarra, which houses Malwiya, a mid-ninth century minaret that
spirals seventeen stories up to the sky; Erbil, an ancient city
in Iraqi Kurdistan whose citadel has been continuously inhabited
for six thousand years; and Uruk, site of the world's earliest
surviving ziggurat..."
In: Humanities (http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities.html)
November/December 2004:
http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-11/lostempires.html
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