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Unfortuantely I am unable to continue with the babylon news blog (sporadic as it may have been). The blog is set up to use google readers ability to share items to a rss feed and pull those items onto the blog. With the latest changes to google reader this functionality has been taken away, thus I am unable to post any items automatically. I would love to continue the blog but i do not have enough time at present to do the blog properly.

My hope is that in the future i will get time to fix site up, but that may be about 6 months away. As always, I have big plans but not really any time to implement them!

Apologies,

Daniel

The head of Iraq’s main anti-corruption agency, Judge Rahim al-Ogaili of the Integrity Commission resigned on September 9, 2011. He said that the government was not committed to fighting graft and fraud, and that the country’s political parties were constantly interfering in his work. A new report by the International Crisis Group shed new light on why Ogaili stepped down. Apparently the Integrity Commission and other agencies discovered a series of front companies run by leading politicians that would routinely win government contracts, but not complete their work. When Ogaili tried to prosecute them, the authorities stepped in and blocked each case. This frustrating experience might have been the last straw for the Integrity Commission head, and led to him quitting.

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The ancient Egyptian city of Amarna. was the short-lived capital built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten and abandoned shortly after his death (c. 1332 BCE). It is of particular significance as it represents both the location of the first major society dedicated to the cult of a single god as well as an important city that was occupied for a relatively brief period and then abandoned. It is thus simultaneously the key to a chapter in the history of religious experience and to a fuller understanding of what it was like to be an ancient Egyptian. More information on Amarna can be found in Kemp 1977; 1995; 2002 and 2005.

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CyArk is a 501c3 non profit organization with the mission of: digitally preserving cultural heritage sites through collecting, archiving and providing open access to data created by laser scanning, digital modeling, and other state-of-the-art technologies.

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As the United States marks 10 years of war, only a third of the veterans of the post-9/11 era say that the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have both been worth fighting, according to a new Pew Research Center report.

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The Old Assyrian Text Project is an international scholarly network with the primary objectives to publish Old Assyrian texts (dated to c. 1900-1700 BCE) and conduct research in OA society (see the main OATP site for more information: [[ http://oatp.ku.dk | oatp.ku.dk ]]). The OATP has fostered a number of research projects and publications through the years and has been generously funded by the Carlsberg Foundation since 2000.

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After 19 years in Swansea we will be moving back to East Anglia. I have been awarded a chair in Archaeological Heritage, and will be serving as Head of the Division of Humanities at University Campus Suffolk. I am looking forward to working with new colleagues and students in Ipswich, as well as the wider research networks from UEA and the University of Essex.

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Iraq has set aside $8.5m (IQD10bn) to develop infrastructure services to the archeological city of Babylon. The announcement was made by the governor of Babel province, Mohammed Massoudi.

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When Suad Dabbagh and two other women graduated from Iraq's Judicial Institute in 1979, they became the first female judges in a nation run by Saddam Hussein. The novelty led to a deluge of news photo and interview

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