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UNESCO: US Seriously Damaged Historic Babylon

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 24, 2009, Gina Haney from the World Monuments Fund makes notes during a visit to the archaeological site of Babylon about 80 kilometers, 50 miles, south of Baghdad, Iraq. UNESCO, the U.N. cultural agency vowed to make Babylon a World Heritage site and prevent vandalism in future wars. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

BAGHDAD - U.S. troops and contractors in Iraq inflicted serious damage on Babylon, driving heavy machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops and digging trenches through one of the world's greatest archaeological sites, experts for UNESCO said Thursday.

"The use of Babylon as a military base was a grave encroachment on this internationally known archaeological site," said a report which the U.N. cultural agency presented in Paris.