News Iraq Babylon: UNESCO lists Iraq's Babylon as World Heritage Site
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee voted on Friday to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site after three decades of lobbying efforts by Iraq. Iraq had been ...
News Iraq Babylon: Babylon is home to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, so why has it only just got a Unesco listing?
A view of the ancient city of Babylon near Hilla, Iraq. Reuters With five other Iraqi sites, including the ancient city of Ashur and the m arshlands of southern Iraq, having already achieved Unesco ...
News Iraq Babylon: Kissing in Babylon: The ancient site giving young Iraqis their freedom
The historic attraction, next to Saddam Hussein's palace, is now a Unesco World Heritage site - can it increase its tourism numbers beyond Iraq? The original Ishtar Gate, built around 2,500 years ago, ...
News Iraq Babylon: Iraq's Babylon listed as World Heritage Site by UNESCO
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has voted to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site after three decades of lobbying efforts by Iraq. Iraq had been trying ...
News Iraq Babylon: Can Iraq finally realise its potential for tourism?
"Iraq, with its suspicion of foreigners and cameras – taking a picture of Babylon or Baghdad requires a police permit – inadvertently has wiped itself out of the tourist guidebooks," noted AP in 1963. ...
News Iraq Babylon: IBBC holds Iraq's First Int'l Tech Conference in Baghdad
held Iraq's first International Tech Conference in Baghdad at the Babylon Rotana Baghdad Hotel on 30 April, hosting government ministers, private industry, entrepreneurs, investors, and ...
News Iraq Babylon: Powerless Iraq
The Babylon battery, a six-inch clay pot sealed with bitumen and ... flourished in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley in antiquity and in the land now called Iraq. Today, however, this country, known ...
