#Babylon map code#

Work very intensively with a group of State Board AntiquityД®mployees at Babylon. We're working on right now is developing tourism paths. And very much with an idea that international tourism will return to Iraq before too long. One was to do condition surveys, and the final element, which is what we're doing today, is to develop conservation plans that we're implementing on site. One was to create a site management plan. We were invited by the Iraq State Board ofДЄntiquities and Heritage in 2007 to work with them to do several things. and making future archaeologicalД®xcavations possible. And to make it a place that's sustainable for tourism, while still

Settle down politically, to make this a place that Part of the work of the World Monuments Fund is to, when things So it's great to see people using the site even amidst the chaos we have today. And a lot of them come just to take a walk along the river or picnic. People really loved and even today, where there is not international tourism, Iraqis still come to the site.

And virtually every Iraqi, at some point, during either his or her schooling or in their adult life, came to Babylon. Before the invasion in the early 2000's, this was the most visited Living right there, but in fact, less thanДЄ 30 minute walk away from the most famous parts of the site are agricultural communities and thriving modern settlements. Because we look at the ruins and we don't see people One of the great surprises of the site is we think that these sites are abandoned. And we know that the site has been occupied for thousands of years. Other times of the year, sandstorms, but I think that's what made it a desirable settlement and antiquity that you could grow things very easily and it was clearly along a trade route. It's a long, particularly beautiful bend of the Euprates, lined with palm trees and certain times of the year, very green and lush. And the site of one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and an imperial capital. We call Neo-Babylonia, when Nebuchadnezzar rebuilt the walls and made luxurious palaces and how it was this center for learning and the arts.

#Babylon map code#

We read about Hammurabi and his building campaign and his Code of Laws, and then later, during the period that That it's mud-brick, that it's simple construction technologies and except for the raisedД«rick animal figures that are very famous, the rest of it doesn't Babylon conjures up these great images of the ancient world,ДЄnd many achievements, and famous people.

The seven years that World Monuments Fund hasД«een working on the site. To talk about Babylon 'cause it's one of my favorite places. Heard of the story of the Tower of Babel which may have come from a ziggurat in ancient Babylon. That so many of us have heard of from the Bible, we've (soft piano music) - I'm here in the offices of the World Monuments Fund and we're gonna talk about the ancient site of Babylon.