Writer Complains “babylon is Falling All over Again”

The complaint that “Babylon is falling all over again,” was made by Dr. William T. Ellis of Swarthmore, Pa., who returned Tuesday from the Near East, where he had spent the last ten months writing a book on Bible lands.

“What is today happening in ancient Babylon is of concern to every historically minded person. The remains of the ancient city, so carefully and expensively excavated throughout a long course of years by German archaeologist, are entirely neglected and unguarded, and the priceless and irreplacable bas-reliefs along the Sacred Way are being broken and pilfered by the Arabs. In a few years more there will be nothing to show of the unearthed remains of the grandeur of the city of Nebuchadnezzar,” Dr. Ellis stated.

“The Iraq Government has a department of antiquities, which apparently confines itself to seizing for display in the Bagdad museum the choicest of the finds of American and British archaeologists, at such new sites as Ur of the Chaldees and Kish. It totally neglects the preservation of one of the greatest archaeological treasures in all the world, the uncovered ruins of mighty Babylon, once ruler of the whole world.”