By Jane Arraf BABYLON, Iraq — Ammar al-Taee ... Image An Iraqi worker chiseling out modern concrete that was used in Babylon between the ancient brick and is now damaging it.Credit ...

Modern-day scholars have noted that Herodotus ... in 2015 by a team of scientists from the University of Babylon, in Iraq, in the International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology.

Modern maintenance work on some of Babylon's monuments used concrete and ... which has become more expensive in drought-plagued Iraq. The Iraqi government did not immediately respond to a request ...

Iraq's northern border is with Turkey while Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are situated to the south. Israel, Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea are only 200 miles away to the west. Modern day Iraq ...

The sun-hardened mud bricks favored by Babylon’s builders have stood up ... expanse of heavily eroded structures interspersed with modern reconstructions. Despite its fame, UNESCO recognition ...