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Its members have collaborated with international institutions and major national projects for most decades and so are still continuing this tradition of cooperation with both public and private institutions.
In late 2015, after an interruption due to political and security issues, work resumed to wrap the statue’s base with a new gravel moat to discourage climbing, along with curbing and a barrier line.
These physical interventions were part of an effort by WMF, the SBAH, and local police to improve security and reduce vandalism.
World Monuments Fund, active at the archaeological site since 2009 with the Future of Babylon project, intervened to address the Lion’s presentation and protection.

Today, the temple is in poor condition because of a combination of material incompatibilities, improper water drainage, rising groundwater, and importantly, too little maintenance.
Situated in the fabled ancient city of Babylon, next to the Processional Way and the iconic Ishtar Gate, the Ninmakh Temple was rebuilt many times through the reigns of Esarhaddon, Assurbanipal, and Nebuchadnezzar in the sixth century.

The delicate repair job unfolds brick by brick, with layers from interventions in 1958, when King Faisal was in power, joining Hussein-era concrete and mud bricks, being replaced where possible by newly made baked and fired mud bricks, stated in local workshops in nearby Borsippa.
The production of the brand new bricks, sized and coloured to match the initial Babylonian ones (the Hussein-era ones were too small rather than the right shade) is simultaneously reviving traditional masonry and training new practitioners.
During Saddam Hussein’s Revival of Babylon project in the 1980s and 1990s, Ninmakh Temple became the model for a series of temple and house reconstructions.
Despite late twentieth-century interventions and subsequent years of neglect, the Ninmakh Temple contains substantial amounts of original fabric preserving its authenticity and integrity.

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Babylon festival, and thousands of Iraqis flock here every month for parties, weddings and musical boat rides along the Euphrates river.

The Lion of Babylon appears on the 25,000-dinar note, bank logos, napkins, restaurant menus, photocopy shop signs, and tourism literature of Iraq.
A singular landmark uniquely popular for the photo opportunity it represented and routinely unguarded, the Lion was often climbed on by visitors.
But today, with renewed internal and foreign tourism and funding from the US embassy along with other international donors, Babylon is returning to life.
Its still-eerie, grandiose Hussein-era palaces and guesthouses are filled up with international artists invited for the

• Babylon festival, and thousands of Iraqis flock here on a monthly basis for parties, weddings and musical boat rides along the Euphrates river.
• Work at the Lion of Babylon was completed in 2015, although routine maintenance work is expected in the near future.
• In 1927, the British ran a railway line through the site, and in the 1980s Hussein built a highway through section of it, along with a palace for himself, complete with a helipad.
• The mud-brick walls were weakened by way of a Hussein-era concrete roof that they cannot support, which collapsed in 1999, and a second mud roof that replaced it, which was damaged by post-invasion military occupation.
• During Saddam Hussein’s Revival of Babylon project in the 1980s and 1990s, Ninmakh Temple became the model for a series of temple and house reconstructions.

A priority component of the project is also training the project team in conservation techniques for unbaked mudbrick, not the same as baked brick, the principal material used for the Ishtar Gate.
WMF will engage local and international experts to mentor the neighborhood project staff and build their transferable skills to ensure the sustainability of Babylon’s built heritage.
Project activities may also improve the temple’s infrastructure and visitor amenities, for its envisioned reuse as a cultural venue.

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You may still find three existing but non-functioning oil pipelines, two of which were built-in the 1970s and 80s and the 3rd of which is more recent—work onto it was blocked following the SBAH filed case in 2012.
Hussein’s interventions, neglect resulting from 12 years of draconian UN sanctions that bankrupted the united states, and subsequent damage by military vehicles in the wake of the 2003 invasion all contributed to Babylon’s demise.
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WMF has been working with Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage since 2009 on the Future of Babylon project, including Ishtar Gate.

• In the process of installing a new perimeter around the statue, the WMF team discovered dangerous fractures in the 12-ton Lion’s brick and concrete base which threatened to topple it altogether.
• WMF’s project at Ninmakh Temple—supported by the US Embassy in Baghdad—focuses on the thorough study, documentation, and subsequent restoration of the building.
• In late 2015, after an interruption due to political and security issues, work resumed to wrap the statue’s base with a new gravel moat to discourage climbing, as well as curbing and a barrier line.
• In 2013, emergency measures were taken to stabilize and reinforce the base through the construction of a fresh
• World Monuments Fund, active at the archaeological site since 2009 with the Future of Babylon project, intervened to address the Lion’s presentation and protection.

In the process of installing a new perimeter round the statue, the WMF team discovered dangerous fractures in the 12-ton Lion’s brick and concrete base which threatened to topple it altogether.
In 2013, emergency measures were taken up to stabilize and reinforce the base through the construction of a new

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assisted with a Unesco World Heritage nomination for Babylon that culminated in its inscription in July 2019 and helped with the conservation and stabilisation of the Lion of Babylon.
The projects at the Ishtar Gate and Ninmakh Temple, launched in 2016 and 2019 respectively, would be the beneficiaries of the US embassy funding.
The annals of SBAH begins in 1924 when the first Law of Antiquities was approved because of the efforts of the British scholar Gertrude Bell.

Babylon was once the pet project of Saddam Hussein, who envisioned himself as a neo-Nebuchadnezzar, and frequently referred to a Quranic passage linking the ruler of the Babylonian Empire to the liberation of Palestine.
WMF’s project at Ninmakh Temple—supported by the united states Embassy in Baghdad—focuses on the thorough study, documentation, and subsequent restoration of the building.
According to the SBAH archaeologist Ammar Altaee, although Hussein-era interventions did use some mud and straw-baked bricks, which allowed for proper drainage, the concrete bricks they used that absorb but can’t expel moisture have caused significant damage.
Current plans, detailed in conceptual drawings, will address drainage issues with façades of metal netting and local stones.