The sound of hammers echoes from ancient brick as Iraqi workers battling damage done by wind, water, and modern history race to shore up the crumbling walls of Babylon.

Ahmed is part of a team of about 10 Iraqi technicians trained by a U.S.-funded project to shore up the brick walls of the ancient site of Babylon, some 50 miles south of Baghdad.

US graffiti on ancient Babylon’s walls. Hammurabi the law-giver was here. So were Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, Saddam Hussein and now, apparently, Sergeant Woods.

BABYLON, Iraq — Ammar al-Taee, an Iraqi archaeologist, picked up a clay panel fallen from one of the ancient walls of Babylon. Paw prints of a dog that wandered onto the drying clay more than ...

A mmar al-Taee, an Iraqi archaeologist, picks up a clay panel fallen from one of the ancient walls of Babylon.Paw prints of a dog that wandered onto the drying clay more than 2,000 years ago ...

Ancient Babylon In Iraq Restored The ancient site of Babylon in Iraq has undergone a lot of damage in recent years but archeologists hope it will still ... His projects have stabilized walls, ...

Babylon was one of the glories of the ancient world, its walls and mythic hanging gardens listed among the Seven Wonders. Founded about 4,000 years ago, the ancient city was the capital of 10 ...

Attack on Ancient Babylon. July 10, 2009 / 1:37 PM EDT / CBS/AP ... "On some walls, the plaster was too thick and fell off, pulling down part of the wall with it," Gina Haney, ...

The heavily graffitied walls of Saddam Hussein’s summer palace echo with the sound of dance beats thumping from speedboat river-tours. Sprawling beneath the complex, built in 1991, lie the ...

In the course of Koldewey’s excavations of the ancient city, his team identified a mysterious structure in one corner of Babylon’s southern palace. It was made of 14 long rooms with vaulted ...