![]() ![]() Local officials want swift work done to restore the crumbling ruins and to start building restaurants and gift shops to draw in tourists, while antiquities officials in Baghdad favor a more painstaking approach to avoid the gaudy restoration mistakes of the past. ![]() Iraq’s Babylon ruins torn between preservation and profit – The Denver Post Close MenuīABYLON, Iraq - A U.S.-funded program to restore the ruins of Iraq’s ancient city of Babylon is threatened by a dispute among Iraqi officials over whether the priority should be preserving the site or making money off it.
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