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Maggie, I will pay to have your priceless tapes digitized and converted to DVDs. Then we will put them on the Internet. What do you say? ................................./ Maggie wrote: >Jeff wrote: >>The best thing to do would be to get a team of people there who could take detailed digital photographs and get detailed descriptions of each piece, which would be immediately uploaded to an Internet site for the world to see. This way, even if the US tried again to encourage the destruction of the artifacts, they would be preserved at least in one form...digitally. > >Jeff, when I went to Iraq in 2001, I took a a regular camera and a video camera with me. I taped my entire trip. While there, I rented a bus and put all my relatives in it and we drove to Babylon. Not only did I tape all the ruins, Ishtar Gate, temple of Inanna, palace of Nabuchadnessr, Assad Babel, the remains of the hanging gardens, what is left of the tower of Babel, and even Saddam's palace looming over the ruins, but I went inside the Hamurabi museum and video taped every single piece. If you recall, the museum was burned down and all the pieces stolen under the watchful eyes of the Polish troops, but I have the footage. > >Sometimes, I feel it was an omen that I went to Iraq. How could I have been granted permission to bring cameras inside Iraq, allowed to video the museum and the ruins, and still made it out of Iraq in one piece with the footage and the pictures I had developed in Baghdad? No one had ever been able to do that, so why ME? > > >> >> >>................................/ >>beezelbub wrote: >>>...Dr George said if I came to Iraq he could put antiquities never yet seen IN MY HAND...I can't think of a single person on this planet who holds a more coveted position whom I would MORE like to be friends with than Donny George. >>> >>>...This man holds the key to the locked doors that contain the greatest collection of artifacts of and from BetNahrain in the world...and he is an Assyrian. >>> >>>It is SO damn tempting to go back there now and walk the back corridors and visit the storerooms where the tablets, jewelry, statuettes, fragments, weapons, bowls and other decorative objects are kept...it's almost beyond comprehension...but not yet. --------------------- |
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