Babylon's Hanging Gardens were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but heritage appears to be no match for Iraq's booming oil industry in a dispute over a new pipeline.
Many antiquities and monuments in the State remain undocumented under the ambitious National Mission on Monuments and Antiquities project that is funded by the Central Ministry of Culture.
Sandy Fenton was among the very greatest scholars of the Ethnology and Antiquities of Scotland of this age ? or of any age. For 15 years he was a member of the Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland, from 1979 to 1994.
