[CondoleezzaProtege]

When the smoke clears, both Iraq and Iran have many worthwhile places to visit.

[Bob434]

Here’s something that’s gonna blow your mind

Saddam was trying to rebuild Babylon- He felt he was a reincarnation of King Nebuchadnezzar- and even had money printed up with bot Neb’s and His portraits on the money- He also had bricks built with inscriptions on them about this supposed connection too- He tried ot purchase the door from some ancient false goddesses temple which someone in the north owns (Russia or germany I think but don’t remember) in order to use it as an entrance to Babylon

Dr David Jeremiah has a sermon on this- very interesting- He makes the point that once nations get together and pool their money, Babylon will be very rapidly rebuilt- Saddam already started the process- and there is some international organization dedicated to rebuilding it

[[The rebuilding of Babylon is not just the idle topic of scholarly books. When Saddam Hussein rose to power in Iraq, he conceived a grandiose scheme for the rebuilding of that ancient city. He promised that Babylon’s grand palaces and legendary hanging gardens (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) would rise from the dust. Believing himself to be the reincarnation of King Nebuchadnezzar II, who had conquered Jerusalem 2,500 years earlier, Hussein invested more than $500 million toward his goal of restoring the ancient city of Babylon.

In 1987, while on a site visit to the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar’s palace, Hussein asked how his guides were so certain of the date of its construction. The curator showed Hussein some of the original bricks, stamped with the name of Nebuchadnezzar II and the date that; we now refer to as 605 BC. Hussein, not to be outdone, had bricks laid in his palace wall that read: “In the reign of the victorious Saddam Hussein, the president of the Republic....the guardian of the great Iraq and the renovator of its renaissance and the builder of its great civilization, the rebuilding of the great city of Babylon was done in 1987.”6]]

https://themeltdowncontinues.blogspot.com/2014/11/dr-david-jeremiahrise-and-fall-of.html

I can’t find hte youtube video right now though

[NorseViking]

Would they rebuild the tower too?

[C210N]

I wonder if this ancient city had a newspaper (on tablet? scroll? papyrus?) named Bee.

[rktman]

Hmm. I heard the house of representatives is going to be renamed the House of Babble On.😵😁

[AnotherUnixGeek]

It’s one of the oldest cities in the world - if the Muslims don’t destroy it all, someday people will want to see it again.

[Bob Ireland]

Recreation of Babylon's Ishtar Gate. {Ishtar couldn't make the shoot}

[Adder]

Slouching towards Babylon.