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 ...

"U.S. forces respect historical sites in Iraq," she added ... The stakes used to set up the barbed wire damaged walls, according to the report. Babylon, an hour's drive south of Baghdad, dates ...

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