When the first-century B.C. writer Diodorus Siculus describes the walls of Babylon, he actually appears ... when Saddam Hussein—then dictator of Iraq—set out to create a reconstruction of ...
The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...
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