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The Basrah Museum (Arabic: متحف البصرة) is a museum in the Iraqi city of Basra, housed in a former palace of Saddam Hussein. Its collection is related to Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Persian civilisations, as well as the history of the city itself. [1] Basrah Museum opened its doors to the public in March 2019. [2]
Upon becoming president in 1979, Saddam Hussein treasured his national heritage immensely and acted to defend these sites and the artifacts within them. He believed that the past of Iraq was important to his national campaign and his regime actually doubled the national budget for archaeology and heritage creating museums and protecting sites all over Iraq. [6]
The Murašû Archive is a collection of cuneiform tablets, excavated between 1888 and 1900, from the ruins of Nippur in central Babylonia.Named after the chief member of a single family, the Murašû Archive is a collection of business records that spans four generations.
The palace contains over 62 rooms and 29 bathrooms. [7] Al-Faw Palace was the first palace that the UN teams entered when searching for weapons of mass destruction, but they did not find any. The palace was bombed during the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq by an F-16 as a "show of force" but Saddam had known that his palaces would be targeted for ...
As-Salam palace has 200 rooms with approximately 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m 2) of floor space. There are six floors, three of which are usable (others serve as 'false floors'), and two large ballrooms. The palace is internally lined with marble floors decorated with hundreds of thousands of hand-cut pieces, granite walls, and ceilings also ...
A golden AK-47 assault rifle from one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces, which is thought to have been gifted to someone by the Iraqi dictator is going on display for the first time.
Two sections of Big Babylon that have been bolted together at Royal Armouries, Fort Nelson, Portsmouth. Project Babylon was a space gun project commissioned by then Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. It involved building a series of "superguns". The design was based on research from the 1960s Project HARP led by the Canadian artillery expert ...
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