Magical words, delicately hovering in the wings of horizons and global folk mythology: Babylon, Nineveh, Mesopotamia, Hatra…Before religions were established, humans stood tall, and alone…

The barbaric destruction of sites of pre-Christian and pre-Islamic ancient civilisations are not just a grievous loss to the soul of Iraq and other nations. The tragic cultural vandalism is an attack on the soul of the entire world, located in the heart of a shared history of humanity.