Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime.

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Our work is to present things that are as they are.
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NEIL GAIMAN Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragi...
NEIL GAIMAN Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w...
NEIL GAIMAN There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
NEIL GAIMAN Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u...
NEIL GAIMAN There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.
NEIL GAIMAN For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of...
NEIL GAIMAN She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap...
NEIL GAIMAN The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said...
NEIL GAIMAN For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure ...
NEIL GAIMAN It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't ...
NEIL GAIMAN There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.
NEIL GAIMAN On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Co...
NEIL GAIMAN They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one...
NEIL GAIMAN The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be...
NEIL GAIMAN

Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime.

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Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime.

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