UNESCO's Damage Assessment of the Cultural Heritage of Babylon, 2009, was prepared after the site was used as a military base during the Iraq War. As the international body responsible for World Heritage matters, it carries direct institutional authority for the damage it documents. Its strength is a first hand professional assessment commissioned specifically for this purpose. Its limit is that it is the assessing body's own official report, not an independent archaeological study of the wider site or an adjudication of responsibility, which readers should seek elsewhere.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: UNESCO's own first hand professional damage assessment commissioned for that specific purpose, direct institutional authority though not an independent archaeological study or adjudication of responsibility. NotesUNESCO's own damage assessment of the cultural heritage of Babylon (2009); the official assessment report, not an independent archaeological study.
Citation
AuthorUNESCO
PublisherUNESCO
Publication Year2009
URLhttps://www.unesco.org/en
Source TypeInternational body
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This source names Babylon directly: "Assessment of the Cultural Heritage of Babylon, 2009, was prepared after the site was used as a military base during the Iraq War."
This source names Iraq directly: "was used as a military base during the Iraq War."
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- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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