It's difficult for a country to rebuild after a war has taken place. The war in iraq has not just had drastic effects on its people, but it's art has also really been affected. War ruins communities, and it takes a long time for the communities to rebuild. For example, if you move from Iraq, and look back at the Croatian War of Independence with Bosnia and Herzegovinia in the early 1990's, you will still to this day see major evidence of a community just completely ravished because of war, and fighting for just the course of 4 years. I have been to Croatia, and have seen the damage hand on, and it is very visible from their 4 year long battle with Bosnia. The damage Iraq has consumed over the past 9 year long war with the United States is copious. In Baghdad, Iraq's National Museum consumed artifacts over time from Samarra, Ashur, Uruk, Harta and from Babylon. The museum had more than 100,000 objects all together. Because of bombings, and combat; a lot of the artifacts were moved into safe deposit boxes, and also items were put in the basement. When war broke out in 2003, thieves broke into the museum and stole many of the artifacts. The Warka Vase from Uruk, an Assyrian ivory carving, and many other precious artifacts were stolen. A real loss because of the major history in all of the artifacts. The loses were so great because their origin was from the area between the Euphrates and the Tigris. These were artifacts from places that birthed government, modernized a whole array of things, as well as literature. These artifacts were the roots of what is known as modern society. The visible damage from the war done to the ancient ruins of Babylon is clearly noticeable. A place with such drastic biblical importance, its upsetting that man kind was able to fight on it's grounds, viciously damaging Babylon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/arts/03babylon.html
(I found this article in the New York Times, it covers what I said about the ruins in Babylon in more detail-and how rebuilding Babylon will be taking place.)