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Artillery and Artifacts Page 1 of 9 Floridian: Artillery and artifacts Page 1 of 9 Calendars Classified Forums Sports Weather Yellow Pages Special Links Entertainment 2002 Year in Review Artillery and artifacts sptimes.com Text-only News sections Action Arts & Entertainment AP The Wire Business Citrus County Columnists Floridian Hernando County Hillsborough [Photos courtesy of Ferrell Jenkins] Letters Ur, the traditional birthplace of Abraham and site of one of Neighborhood the most well-preserved stepped pyramids, called a Times ziggurat, is a treasure that archaeologists fear is News Update endangered by the war in Iraq. Last week, the U.S. 141st North Pinellas Mechanized Infantry Battalion was dug in there, according North of Tampa to media reports. Obituaries Opinion By SHARON TUBBS, Times Staff Writer Pasco County © St. Petersburg Times South Pinellas published April 10, 2003 Sports State Tampa Bay TV Times The war in Iraq not only endangers Ferrell Jenkins removes a piece World & Nation of clay tablet from the glass Find your local human life. news section Priceless case in his Temple Terrace Weekly sections antiquities lie in living room. It is thousands of Brandon Times the fighting's path, years old, he says, from ancient City Times and despite the ruins in what is now Iraq. Homes U.S. military's From the Times Outdoors attempts to spare He's happy to show the artifact, daily Floridian Perspective but he handles his small them, some may be Floridian Personal Tech treasure carefully, much the lost. z Sarandon: Sunday Money way he talks about a war in a Speaking out Tampa Bay country that historians call "the cradle of civilization." 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Pieces and chunks z Comics coming of once large and complete artifacts are now bought and soon sold on the open market with ease. From the AP Features wire http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/10/Floridian/Artillery_and_artifac.shtml 4/10/2003 Floridian: Artillery and artifacts Page 3 of 9 Jenkins suspects that's what happened with the piece of z Rolling Stones the clay tablet he was holding. It is scripted with the Cancel Bangkok wedgelike writing the Babylonians used. He got it from Concert a legitimate antiquities dealer on a trip to England a few z Boy's Mom Testifies in Suit years ago. Vs. Tommy Lee z 'Dr. Laura's' * * * Mom's Death Ruled Natural People for and against the war in Iraq are mourning z O'Donnell: No military and civilian casualties. Mainstream discussions Politics at Kids' have focused on political ramifications, on which Choice countries will remain U.S. allies after the war is over. z Pappano to Take Over at Rome Orchestra In the scheme of things, concerns about artifacts and z Card to Head shrines may seem marginal. But religion and history are Chicago intricately woven into military action in the Middle Symphony East. Orchestra z Maya Lin Wins Denmark Historians throughout Europe have decried the potential Architecture loss of cultural icons and biblically significant material. Award Muslims in the Middle East protest battles at or near z Nigerian sacred sites. Drummer Olatunji Dies at 75 Petitions have circulated. Organizations issued z Christian Music statements and sent lists of crucial sites to the U.S. Highlighted in Tenn. Bars Department of Defense months ago. z Hall Cancels 'Bull Durham' From the Boston- Festivities based American Schools of Oriental Research's statement on Iraq: "The undersigned ask countries to take The Euphrates River, with the measures to avoid, to Tigris and two other rivers, is the extent possible, mentioned in Genesis as the site damage to Iraq's of the Garden of Eden. cultural monuments, museums and archaeological sites and that their military forces respect the integrity of such monuments and sites." Iraq's Republican Guard has used international concerns for religion and culture as military strategy. It has holed up in mosques and other buildings labeled by international preservation groups as culturally valuable. The United States has taken heed in some cases. St. Petersburg Times reporter Wes Allison, who is embedded with the 101st Airborne Division, says that http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/10/Floridian/Artillery_and_artifac.shtml 4/10/2003 Floridian: Artillery and artifacts Page 4 of 9 troops in Najaf were ordered to spare a cemetery and a mosque regarded as one of Islam's holiest sites. Later in Najaf, the unit was nearly attacked by an angry mob of civilian Iraqis who mistakenly thought soldiers were trying to capture the ayatollah or attack his mosque. The unit's commanders had gone seeking the ayatollah's support. Tiptoeing around culture is not easy in Iraq. Thousands of archaeological sites are thought to be in the country, which is the size of California, said Jane Waldbaum, president of the Archaeological Institute of America. About 4,000 to 5,000 have been identified, and far fewer have been excavated or studied. "We know that they're there, but it takes a lot of time to excavate a site," she said. "It takes a lot of money." During a media briefing March 26, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, deputy director of operations at U.S. Central Command, relayed the military's efforts to protect cultural sites. "We remain committed to preserving the rich culture and heritage and the resources of the Iraqi people," Brooks said. "The regime continues to put them at risk. I've showed you before images of MiGs in cemeteries. Today I want to show you an image of military equipment positioned close to a very historic site. This is a part of the ruins of the place called (Ctesiphon). It's about 20 miles southeast of Baghdad on the banks of the Tigris River, and it is a site that has over 2,000 years of history, and it's significant to a number of nations. "What you see with the yellow lines is military equipment, communications equipment, positioned right beside that. On top of the building, as the sign shows, this is marked with an international symbol of being an historic place." * * * Many Americans know Iraq only for its oil. They are ignorant of the country's cultural heritage and how it ties to people around the world. "I think a lot of people don't realize that modern Iraq is just about synonymous with ancient Mesopotamia," Waldbaum said.
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