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World Service,10 May 2006,22 mins

Uncovering Babylon

The Battle for Babylon

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4,000 years ago Iraqi forefathers were attempting to forge a new beginning. The Babylonian Empire had come to an end. Jonathan Charles travels to Iraq to discover the history of Babylon and find out what has been preserved following the Iraq war.

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