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'Semiramis, being by nature grandiose and honourably ambitious to surpass in glory her predecessor king, wished to found a city in Babylonia, selecting from everywhere architects and skilled artisans and procuring everything that was needed, assembled from the entire kingdom two million men for the completion of the work. Setting the Euphrates river in the middle of the city, surrounded the city with a wall three hundred and sixty stadia in circumference, as Ctesias of Cnidos says, but according to Cleitarchos and the ones who later on crossed into Asia with Alexander, three hundred and sixty-five stadia; and they added that it was her noble wish to make the number of the stadia the same as the number of days in the year.' From Diodoros' of Sicily Library of History. Book 2:7(2-4).

'Having achieved by far greater deeds than the earlier kings, he (Ninos) hurried to build such a big city than not only it would be the largest of the then existing ones in the inhabited world, but also that is would not be easy for any antecessors to surpass him. Honoring the king of Arabia with gifts and magnificent spoils of war, he dismissed him and his army to their own country, and after gathering his forces and the necessary material from everywhere, he founded on Euphrates (Tigris) river a city well fortified with walls, having rectangular form.' From Diodoros' of Sicily Library of History. Book 2:3(3).

كهرمانة والاربعين حرامي لفنانا الكبير محمد غني حكمت من التماثيل الرائعة والقديمة في بغداد لا بل وتعد رمز من رموز بغداد

الحياة في بغداد لم ولن تتوقف بغداد عامرة بأهلها

Hi PuterJunkie,

Unfortionatly, most people are ignorant, and if not they pretend to be ignorant. I hope you are none of those kinds.

This is the statue of King Faisal the First, an Iraqi leader and the founder of modern Iraq. He is loved, respected, and horned by many Iraqis.

I hope that you were not - subconsciously- mocking his dress, that would be prejudice.This is our national dress and we are proud of it, this is was our King and we are proud of him.

You may know that the Iraqi civilization is as old as the written history itself! Mesopotamia is 7000 years Old! (check wiki )We are not civilized today,Yes maybe, but once we were, and one day we will be back! Again!

Years from now, there will be no page in the Iraqi history books that talks about Bin Laden The Terrorist. But I assure u that there will be many history books about a "Civilized" country that destroyed modern Iraq, A war that was based on a big lie.

The freely elected leaders of the US must apologize to their people, for they sent their sons to die searching for a weapon which was not there, fighting an enemy which was not there!

Unfortunately, The Abo Ghraib Prison photos will last in the Iraqi memory as much as 911 photos will last in the American memory. This is so sad.

I am not justifing, both are devilsh acts made by savage killers who have no respect for the human life.

Bush failed to capture Bin Laden, some people needed to revenge, others needed to feel that the war on terror was making them more secure and so came the war on Iraq. Which by the way was opposed by many free countries! remember the 1'000'000 rally in London 2003!

Unfortunately we are living in the dark ages with modern technology! As of 2009, the United States government is spending about $1 trillion annually on defense-related purposes(wiki). This money is used to produce more weapons to kill more people! But does that make the world a better place to live!

The world is in its worst shape ever. The East and West are in deep misunderstanding. Please lets try to understand each others, please lets both be really civilized, enough with the stereotype way of thinking, lets try to be less prejudges, lets try to love and respect each others, lets once believe that " All people are created equable". lets be humans for God's sake.

I pray for that day to come.

I hope i did not hurt your feelings, if you find my lines hash, just ask me and i will delete my comment.

Peace and Love to all the people of the world!

Kind Regards to you PuterJunkie

وين صاير قصر بابل؟

هاي وين صايره هاي المحطه ؟؟؟ كلش حلوه ولا شايفته .. اللله يعمره البغداد وايخلي الناس الطيبه

Hi,

Very nice picture! May I use it as an illustration in a book?

cool photo, how do you take all these photos. Are you a photographer?