SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The U.S., a country with a mere 250 years of infamous history, destroying cultures in the Middle East that are thousands of years older than its own.

Sunday, 17 May 2026

The U.S., a country with a mere 250 years of infamous history, destroying cultures in the Middle East that are thousands of years older than its own.

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Daniel Mayakovski

Translated from Spanish

U.S. imperialist army soldiers looting the National Museum of Iraq during their invasion of Baghdad, hammering out the gold inlaid in the doors and plundering millennia-old antiquities.

Iraq, 2003.

The U.S., a country with a mere 250 years of infamous history, destroying cultures in the Middle East that are thousands of years older than its own.

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Daniel Mayakovski

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Translated from Spanish

Twenty-three years have passed since the looting of the National Museum of Iraq by the US army, during which more than 15,000 archaeological pieces were plundered, along with the theft of the world's largest library of cuneiform studies and millennia-old antiquities.

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