Erasing Memory

The Cultural Destruction of Iraq

Episode 6 of Shocking and Awful

In the wake of the U.S. invasion, the military stood by and watched the destruction of the museums and archives of Iraq, the oldest treasures of human civilization. Millennia of history were bombed, looted and destroyed, and with them much of the memory and culture of Iraq. Part six of a twelve part series from Deep Dish TV on the war in Iraq.