Expo of Greatest Babylon Treasures Opens in Berlin

6-26-08
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3440815,00.html

A touring exhibition of the greatest surviving treasures of ancient Babylon opens Thursday in the German capital Berlin at the Pergamon Museum, which already has one of the world's richest Babylonian collections.

Exhibition designers said the 1,000 items on display illustrated the vast cultural heritage of Iraq and would explore why western culture falsely associated Babylonian civilization with evil, with a Biblical tradition describing the city as the "Whore of Babylon."

The same cultural tradition has regarded the city as a failure, because it failed to complete its lofty Tower of Babel.