Genghis Khan Exhibit Contrasts 1258 With 2003 Sacking of Baghdad

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Twair, Pat McDonnell | Copyright information

The timing of the April 13 opening of "The Legacy of Genghis Khan" exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) couldn't have been more ironic. Even as this exhibition, grounded in the Mongol sacking of Baghdad, was unveiled in Southern California, TV sets throughout the world showed images of U.S. forces bombing the venerable old city, then guarding the Oil Ministry building instead of protecting cultural treasures from desperate Iraqis.

Six years in the making, the exhi...

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