The Destruction Of Cultural Heritage In Iraq

摘要

The terrible human cost of the invasion of Iraq by coalition forces in 2003 is well documented. Published five years after the invasion, this book is a collection of twenty-eight essays which look back at a less bloody but nonetheless deplorable consequence. Its topic is the affect of the conflict on the country's cultural heritage and the international response that ensued. The victim with the highest profile was the Iraq Museum, which was ransacked as the battle for Baghdad raged around it. Several contributors shed light on how this happened and who was responsible. Also in the limelight was the site of Babylon, fifty miles south of Baghdad, which the coalition forces chose as the location for Camp Alpha and occupied for twenty months until the end of 2004. The consequent damage to the site has been well documented but this volume contains what may be regarded as definitive accounts.