{"id":1276,"date":"2009-01-10T15:57:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T14:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2009-01-10T15:57:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T14:57:13","slug":"back-to-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1276","title":{"rendered":"Back to Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, my wife and I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\">British Museum<\/a> in central London to see the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/whats_on\/all_current_exhibitions\/babylon.aspx\">&#8220;Babylon: Myth And Reality&#8221;<\/a>. While not having the scale and grandeur of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/exhibitions\/byzantium\/\">&#8220;Byzantium&#8221;<\/a> exhibition at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/\">Royal Academy<\/a> [see my comment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2008\/12\/byzantium_3301453.html\">here<\/a>]. it is still an interesting and impressive exhibition as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2008\/nov\/16\/babylon-british-museum-review\">this review<\/a> from the &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper makes clear.<br \/>\nHowever, if one wants to see the true glory of Babylon, one has to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pergamon_Museum\">the Pergamon Museum<\/a> in Berlin (which I have) where one can see a reconstruction of the magnificent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ishtar_Gate\">Ishtar Gate<\/a>. The actual remains of Babylon south of Baghdad are more disappointing than ever since American and Polish troops used the site as a base in the current occupation and did terrible harm to archeological site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, my wife and I visited the British Museum in central London to see the exhibition &#8220;Babylon: Myth And Reality&#8221;. While not having the scale and grandeur of the &#8220;Byzantium&#8221; exhibition at the Royal Academy [see my comment here]. it is still an interesting and impressive exhibition as this review from the &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}