The National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad reopened a few weeks ago – prematurely, say critics.
Built in 1966 by a German architect, the museum had been closed for over six years. The Iraqis evidently foresaw the pending invasion of American and British troops, as the exhibits were already closed and the most important treasures were hidden away in a vault beneath the Central Bank.
The British Guardian spoke of 270,000 individual pieces being lost when the plunderers stormed the building in presence of the invading army. Though it caused some international concern mainly from the Archeologists and historian as 'an irreparable catastrophe'.
The legacy of Mesopotamia and Babylonia seemed to have been lost forever. The 8000 years of Iraq's history once again left for loot and plunder.
Many a times Bagdad was massacred by invading army yet it stood up with its past glory but only to be destroyed again by superpowers in combine in the name of bringing democracy in modern time. Unlike the primordial time this time with precision and pride, to 'save mankind from the jaw of dictatorship'.
Destroying and killing millions of unarmed men, women, children and their legitimate leaders and private and public properties including the most prized museum of Baghdad. A civilization destroyed in front of all legitimate or otherwise powerful institutions human civilization over the year supposedly created for its own safeguard.
One archeological object that was destroyed by the then Taleban in Afghanistan caused much furor in BBC, CNN, Fox news channels and their standard bearers, but the most renowned treasures of Nimrud what was found by Iraqi explorer Said Muzahim in the remains of the capital of the Assyrian Empire in 1989, considered as most spectacular as the discovery of the tomb of Tutunkhamun in Egypt, now lost forever and only the photos of the carving is now displayed, yet without much security. The imperial forces and their mouthpiece remain ambiguous on this.
With much of the blood through the Eufratees and Tigris rivers flowed yet people rise and sustain their humankind albeit with inhuman sufferings and hardship.
Nimrud's fire could not destroy Abraham, the criminalities of the modern world may sustain a great sufferings for the disobedient subjects, but history written by people's of God always equate them with the Devil.
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