Remember Iraq's Heritage, Our Heritage

[edthewise]

This is why Europeans have so many of these ancient treasures and artifacts in museums in the west because they damn people are like children irresponsible and unable to govern themselves.

[elamite66]

The theft by looters of irreplaceable treasures could be ascribed to greed but the distruction ot treasures not taken was behing comprehension The rioters and looters were guilty of theft and destruction but Bush was guilty of not protecting the legacy of not only Iraq but the world The explanation that it was not worth putting U.S. forces in jeopardy, as he didn't mind putting soldiers and airmen in harm's way to destroy Saddam's yacht which was only a propaganda statement or the oil facilities

[elamite66]

The looting of the Antiquities museum was an atrocity both to Iraq's heritage and the heritage of the Western World George Bush refused to protect the museum, archeological sites and also the city's hospital despite the National Georgraphic, Smithsonian and many other NGOs It was a crime beyond understanding Did Bush believe it?, I cannot put it any other way The propoganda put forth by the U.S. and U.K. about WMDs and links to Al Qaeda was believed by too many Afganistan Yes Iraq?

[IceSparrow44]

I will light my candle. :'(

[rahotep101]

Shocking and dreadful. Apologies to Iraq from one Briton who wishes his country had never been part of the invsion and who opposed it from the start. This cultural destruction was the least of the evils that resulted in the ensuing anarchy. Such a terrible, shameful, insane episode.

[am1966ath]

The iliterate US-troops just stood by while this priceless collection was looted. Bravo G.Bush

[CUACHALOTE]

wow and other BIG X for the profile of USA, BORN TO KILL.

[suvojitbanerjee1977]

What a shame ..

But its true .. My amarican brothers and Sisters have to carry this ..on their shoulders...

[ARESDEUMOUTROMUNDO]

Vergonha....uma herança cultural...património mundial...é a nossa história....tenho vergonha de ser da mesma espécie dos que pilharam o museu....ser humanos....guerras....guerras.­...acabamos com tudo o que é nosso!!!

[FarhadOnUtube]

The world does not forget the controversial holocaust but this means nothing for them.

[freefapi]

أنيك أماتهم لقحاب

[rr199423]

very very sad .

[deserk]

This is one of the worst things that have happened in our century. Thousands of artifacts of a great civilization destroyed from history, never to be seen again.

This isn't just about the Iraqi's history, this is about mankind's history.

[elamite66]

@deserk I only hope many of the broken and looted artifacts are recorded and photographed not that is in anyway going to soften the blow but it would be something at least Bush was only interested in imagined WMDs and illusory Al Qaeda links and revenge

[finalprophet10]

I will blame religion you retard. Religion is the product of an imbalanced amygdala. It is a mental disease. Love and kindness are qualities that the human conscience either has or doesn't. If you need to be threatened into having those feelings then you will never have them.

[rabah1000]

Fuck them, burn in hell. They stole everything from iraq.

[lumster]

It is such an outrage and crime to see this kind of looting but the United States government supported the Zionist looting of all of Palestine since the original crime began! When will the Zionists give up the looted and occupied Palestine? When will America stop supporting Zionist looters?

[elamite66]

@lumster Yes you are 100% correct regarding the Antiquities Museum but while I have to agree in general about the Zionist depredations this was not done with the total disregard of a nation's and the world's heritage

[finalprophet10]

I hate all religions and would love it if all teh so called holy books were lost.  But this makes me sad. It is a shame to see these priceless things lost.

[MakotoClarinetist]

Don't blame religion. It's when people become so extreme that they pervert what was originally intended. All religions support kindness and love, just extremism leads to this sort of thing.

[mujahedeenaliraq]

FUCK THOSE PIGS WHO STOLE IT

[vonspawn]

Before, it was the Library of Alexandria... and now this. And who knows how many other such repository of past knowledge were desecrated... sad!

[blacklightwisdom]

mayans had their books burned by spanish invaders too

[khali122]

I can´t believe this. Both of you should work together in order to save everything that´s been part of Human History. You can love your modern nation, and don´t need to use History to justified it. It´s a different matter, and as clever a you are, you won´t use it again, but to learn it from an objectif point of view. Every artifact that´s been taken from wherever must have a solid answer of disapprovement. That´s what will save us from ignorance.

[TheGreatSparky]

Thank you for being the only rational person on this thread.

[khali122]

Wow! thank you very much. Maybe this means that we´re not alone.

[nixter888]

Come on!!!give the names of your authors!!!give me the names of your knowledge!!!do you have any?I DO NOT THINK SO!!!THE DISTORTION IS OVER!!!YOU ARE THE ONE THAT TOOK EVERYTHING FROM THE AEGEAN GREEKS BEFORE AND AFTER OF THE GREAT DELUGE OF THE AEGEAN!!THOUSANDS OF CITIES ARE UNDER THE SEE!!!SHOWN THE GREAT CIVILIZATION THAT WAS THERE ONCE!

[nixter888]

The city of Acrotiri in the island of Santorini since 4000 b.c,is one of those great cities!!!Do you think you could go on with your lies!!THE TRUTH IS HERE!!!BRIGHTER THAN EVER!!!TAKE YOUR PATH NOW!!!

[nixter888]

SEA

[nixter888]

First human in Greece 12.000.000 YEARS AGO IN HALKIDIKI GREECE!!THE FIRST HOMO SAPIENT 800.000 YEARS AGO IN THE CAVE OF PETRALONA GREECE!!!Stop your nonsense!!!

[IraqiGladiator]

man what ur saying is nonsense..ur words are not going to change history..we have the land of the prophets..Adam, Abraham, Noah, and the majority of the prophets known..the savior of mankind from oppression and injustice is also from Iraq..aside from this..who set the first code of laws, who invented the wheel, who were the first to write, who built the first cities ever known..man if this was a boxing match you would've been knocked out..just chill..Iraq was, is, and will always be the best

[nixter888]

you have nothing!!!!all these are a big fat lie!!!!the first code of law was giving to the world by MINOS OF CRETE,WHO EVERY 9 YEARS HE WAS GOING UP THE THE MOUNT IDE,TO GET THE LAWS FROM ZEUS!!!The first cities werebuilt in GREECE,THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE YOU EVER EXISTED!!MYCENAE,ATHENS,ACROTI­RI,KNOSSOS,SINCE 12600 B.C,

[nixter888]

The first to write were the Greek Pelasgians,thousands of years ago!!you got the writing from them when AGINOR of ARGOS, BROUGHT IT TO YOU WHEN HE FOUNDED PHOENICIA,WITH HIS SON PHOENIX WHICH WAS A GREEK COLONY,BEFORE THE SEMITES TOOK OVER!

[nixter888]

THE WHEEL WAS INVENTED BY THE GREEKS,THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE YOU EVER EXISTED!!!ASTRONOMY WAS INVENTED BY ORPHEUS BY AKTIS,BY HERMES TRISMEGISTOS,THE FIRST KNOWN ASTRONOMER WAS ANGAEUS ,STOP BEING ARROGANT FOR NOTHING!!!NO WORKS of your ever found to say that you were the first to give any writing!!!distortion is a crime!

[IraqiGladiator]

okayyyy..guy ur mixing up with the phoenicians and the mesopotamian..our civilization was wayyyyyyy before greece was known..the assyrians, akkadians, sumerians and the babylonians...guy the first that made the code of law is Hammurabi the son of Nabuchadnezzar..this is where he made the eye for an eye law..man strighten up and know who ur talking to..

[IraqiGladiator]

daamn you are ignorant..all the books of history, all the philosophers, all the teachings and u still reject to admit we are the cradle of humanity..greeks are great but not greater than the babylonians, assyrians, akkadians, and sumerians..end of discussion..ur possessed with the greeks which makes you blind to the truth...

[nerfthegop]

the problem is rome.. rome began a new way of thinking after constine. they would no longer embrace the understanding and stories of the culutre it would take over they would erase it..... Sadly that is the way of the western world

[parandehdarya]

OMG....omg wild people...they are...

[lebnaniapride]

I cant believe any person would just deliberatly destory anyones culture!

[lebnaniapride]

I dont know why so many people are hating on the ancient Iraqis discoveries. The truth is akmost every civilization has contributed to the world in so many ways. However the most well talked about today would be the works of the Muslim/Arabic world, the Greeks, and the Indians. This doesnt mean other cultures havent contibuted.Just appreciate the world and what it has brong, rather than giving disrespectful comments.

[lebnaniapride]

nixter888, the name Mesopotamia is a Greek word, but that was just a name the Greeks gave ancient Iraq because it was surrounded by the two rivers of the Tigris and the Euphrates. The name Mesopotamia means between the rivers.The ancient Iraqis made great achievments to the world in math astronamy, science, and so many more things. The Iraqis are known for being very intelligent!

[hyepower89]

very well said!

[serenazulle]

oh my goodness, nixter... You remind me of Toula's father, Gus in the movie My BFGW. He goes around asking, "give me a word, any word, and I will show you how the origin of the word is Greek." Pls. pick up a hist. bk. The timeline of Ancient Mesopotamia spans roughly from 60,000 B.C. - A.D. 1900. Perhaps with a little reading you'll come to understand the severity of the situation regarding the loss of many of these iraqi antiquities.

[cocodapitbull]

its simple. the us helped destroy iraq museums and heritage libraries because the truth of humanity is in those artifacts. the sumarians talked about how we were made by some extra terrestrial beings that are evil and how other extra terrestrial beings want to help us as a race. all that information would be on those artifacts and the sites(in which now sit u.s. bases). the united states doesn't want the world to know were we come from as a race. its real deep. its deeper than oil.

[nixter888]

where is the garden of eden?where is the tower of babel? how old are your cities?where are your books of mathematics,and the name of the authors? who was hamurabi?....how do you know you were the first to invent writing?how old are those tablets?

[vasterastjej]

the garden of Eden's place is in Qurna region at the place where Iraqs 2 rivers meet, The hanging gardens and tower of Babel where described precisly by Greek historians who travelled to there and based on those description drawings have been done, clay tablets for all Mesopotamians, Bilad Al-rafidein as we call it, contributions such as astrology, mathematics,numbering-& writing-systems, religions, music, songs, laws etc are found in INM, there are many of them idetified by archeologists..

[vasterastjej]

Hammurabi was the 6:th Babylonian king who founded Hammurabis code which is the first codes of law recorded, world-wide known, you can find it in La Lovre in Paris exactly as it was thousands years ago. Sumerian cuneiform script is the first recorded on earth also found on clay tablets dating from ca 3000 BC. More?

[maria20078]

Well sid vasterastjej!

[maria20078]

nixter, go do some research, maybe that will help ya!

[IraqiGladiator]

we are the cradle of Humanity and no body else..Adam descended from Iraq...we are the cradle of civilazations..if it wasnt for us..Greece would not be known..the Greek civilization came 2000 yrs after us..simply the whole world owes us..but as the Greatest Man said " Life has two days one in your favor and one to your disadvantage. If in your favor, then don't let it be in vain and if to your disadvantage, then don't be sad." days have been against us for many years and inshala not for so long

[nixter888]

GREECE IS THE CRADLE OF HUMANITY and civilization!!!Easy now with your nonsense!!!NAME ONE THING YOU GAVE TO GREECE?GIVE ME YOUR AUTHORS,and THE BOOKS FROM WHERE THE GREEKS LEARN FROM YOU!!!I am waiting!!!

[IraqiGladiator]

1-Babylonian thought had a considerable influence on early Greek philosophy- (wiki)

2- astronomy was adopted and further developed in Greek (wiki)

3- Babylonian astronomy was the basis for much of what was done in Greek and Hellenistic astronomy (wiki)

and if u want some more I'll get u

[deserk]

I think the guy your argueing with is a bit mistaken. The Greeks were the cradle of civiilization for the EUROPEANS, because not only did they bring knowledge from the East, from civilizations such as the Babylonians and Persians, but they re-examined it and brought new knowledge and thought to it.

[nixter888]

what is the name?

[killerwauzi]

lol nixter we're talking about mesopotamia here because here in the west the land is called mesopotamia.of course the mesopotamians had/have another name for it.

[nixter888]

tell me about your artists!!about your scholars,about the creators of those civilizations...who are they?..can you give me some names?

[X38860]

we figured out how to tell time we invented writing we founded modern methaeatics we invented artificial building materials we made the tower of babel we made de garden of eden we were the first people who build cities and live in them iraq is the country of abraham, iraq is the country of tigris and eufraat.. and you wanted some names, here you go: Ur Nammu Untash Napirisha Hamurabi and alot more

[vasterastjej]

great well said=)

[X38860]

thanx

[cocodapitbull]

there are still more artifacts to be discovered in iraq and the u.s. doesn't want that because it will expose the reptilian devils that run this world.

[nixter888]

what did you discover?who were your scholars? where are your writings?

[nixter888]

you should say one of the first civilizations and not the first!,,and why you called your place MESOPOTAMIA?..A GREEK NAME?

[elizabeth483]

Nixter, you'd better study history before writing: it is true that the first cradle of art and culture was actually Mesopotamia, or Iraq,as you prefere

[gwbushpos]

I know where you can find the Gold looted from Iraq; it's located in Crawford, Texas or somewhere inside McLennan County Line.

[SAT9terminus]

Priceless records of the truth conveniently distroyed WAU! Isn't it always like this...? We have seen this History is for EVERYONE who live keeping memories, facts..good & bad 'intact' so to Never forget. Things passed down from one generation to another to prevent human error, showing an example, adn leaving something for the next generation if families were left with nothing! Let treasures be the ledger and let's keep these on the books.

[nixter888]

i did not know that Iraq is the cradle of civilization! i all ways thought that ....Greece was the cradle of civilization! what did they give to the world? can you tell me please!

[savingantiquities]

Iraq is generally referred to as the "cradle of civilization" because the ancient Sumerians were the first to develop an organized urban society, the first to develop writing as a means of recordkeeping and communication (the cunieform tablet), and the first to develop large-scale agriculture (crop yields in ancient Sumer compare favorably to the yields farmers in that region achieve today). That's why historians call Mesopotamia ("the land between two rivers") the cradle of civilization.

[saabai]

Every time I see this I cry, I feel we Iraqis will not be able to return back our history, our glory, our heritage, what our ancetors created for humanity. Who did this? why this always has to happen to us?

[nixter888]

but we find Greek writings since 7.000 b.c,in CRETE TOO! VERY OLD WRITINGS! how is SUMERIAN OLDER?

[nixter888]

AND WHY they use Greek names to call their country and their rivers?...LIKE MESOPOTAMIA= MESIS+ POTAMI= MIDDLE+RIVER? or Ephratis,and Tigris,two GREEK NAMES?

[pacificguitarist]

nixter your facts are very incredibly wrong. The first civilizations began to appear in Mesopotamia. Take a world history class for God's sake.

Greece was NOT that. Greece was one of the first places to see the beginnings of democracy. how freakn old are you?

[nixter888]

you are forgetting the Aegean civilization,since the 12.500 b,c!with the Pelasgian-Greeks,the Cycladians,the Minoans,THE Mycaenaens,did anybody told you about that?king minos of CRETE,was taking the LAWS FROM ZEYS FROM THE MOUNTAIN IDE and was giving them to the world!

[saabai]

Old Iraqis established the first script(cuneiform), library, school, laws, wheel, harp etc.

The first civilization with an organized army & a civilization that fullfilled all the requirements for a fully developed society.

[Lastmonday]

can anyone tell me what's terrorism? this is the fuckin terrorism! damn idiots! i just cried, how we gonna create all these cultural fortune ha? all feelings n lifes turned to money. i'm wondering what we gonna sell when we loot smash sell n consume all the values cnvertable to money it's end of the world,civilisation n humanity...

[SETINWAYS]

I was against the first gulf war,and anybody in there right mind,is against this crap that's going on now.The reason why,i knew,iknew,that priceless objects would be blownup.

[quadriplegic]

this is the fredoom that the USA brought to Iraq.. and this is their civilization as you see..

[Audiodidakt]

sad

[Jflexone]

Congrats...GeorgeW.Bush...

[jkoronnyc]

An authoritative view on a compelling issue.

[eghtcorners]

Hearfelt, powerful, we do need to get together to save ourselves.