In the shadow of Babylon
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If you want to understand Iraq, the British Museum's collection of its
treasures offers some crucial clues
Neil MacGregor
Monday June 14, 2004
The Guardian
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth.
It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that
fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of different
races and languages, drawn together in pursuit of wealth, tried for
the first time to live together - and failed. The result was bleak
incomprehension. Ambitious technology defying the natural order was
punished as the tower that tried to reach the skies collapsed.
Irreligion and promiscuity inevitably conjured the apocalypse.
Babylon
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