[redstateconfidential]

This all sounds brilliant until you consider Iraq as the Richest and most advanced place in the world.....

[rfp1234]

the Obama Administration is contributing $700,000 towards "The Future of Babylon Project," through the State Department's budget.

Porkulus Iraqulus.

[Beowulf9]

Kinda cool.

Course then again the bible has some verse that says ‘Babylon the great has fallen...

[ottbmare]

Boy, it’s nice to know that the US has all that spare money to throw around.

[Billthedrill]

I’d go in a heartbeat. The problem with serious excavation in these places is where do you stop? Layers upon layers, each of which is historically significant, and Babylon is by no means the eldest of the ancient cities in Mesopotamia. If they’d stop killing one another over there it could be an archaeological smorgasbord.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

What's more, the Obama Administration is contributing $700,000 towards "The Future of Babylon Project," through the State Department's budget.

Really? Does that mean we're going to see this in a few years?

[waiyu]

Seems like I have read about this before. About 7 or 8 years ago. It was Tim LaHaye’s novel series, “Left Behind.” A fictional interpretation of the Book of Revelations. And before that, I read about it in the actual BOOK OF REVELATIONS!

[topcat54]

"Officials hope Babylon can be revived and made ready for a rich future of tourism,

The idea that a proposed tourist atraction has any prophetic significance is absurd. It's just more fuel for the Rapture Ready knuts, and folks who hawk books about such things, like Mr. Rosenberg.

In my non-fiction book, Epicenter 2.0, I wrote

Non-fiction. Hah!

[Zionist Conspirator]

Dey gonna be war in de Babylon!