Bringing Babylon Back From The Dead - We All Know How This Will Turn Out...

[Jordan]

Babylon was one of the glories of the ancient world, its walls and mythic hanging gardens listed among the Seven Wonders.

 

Founded about 4,000 years ago, the ancient city was the capital of 10 dynasties in Mesopotamia, considered one of the earliest cradles of civilization and the birthplace of writing and literature.

But following years of plunder, neglect and conflict, the Babylon of today scarcely conjures that illustrious history.

 

In recent years, the Iraqi authorities have reopened Babylon to tourists, hoping that one day the site will draw visitors from all over the globe. But despite the site's remarkable archaeological value and impressive views, it is drawing only a smattering of tourists, drawn by a curious mix of ancient and more recent history.

 

The city -- just 85km (52 miles) south of Baghdad, about a two hour drive, dependent on checkpoints -- still bears the marks of ham-fisted attempts at restoration by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and a subsequent occupation by U.S. forces in 2003.

 

 

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/04/world/meast/iraq-babylon-tourism/index.html

 

[Lin ASL Ebron]

Satanic distractions come in all shapes and sizes,  People will not acknowledge the reality and truthfulness of Jehovah's words:

 

*** g 1/11 pp. 11-12 A Book You Can Trust—Part 3 ***

True to God’s prophetic Word, in 539 B.C.E.—just as Judah’s 70-year exile was about to end—the seemingly invincible city of Babylon was overthrown by Medo-Persian armies. In time, the city became a heap of ruins—just as predicted. No human could foretell such a striking achievement. Without a doubt, the act of prophesying, or foretelling events in advance, sets the Author of the Bible—the true God, Jehovah—apart from any other god.—Isaiah 46:9, 10.

 

but they constantly try to glorify human efforts to rebuild ancient cities.

 

Typical...

[rocket]

Satanic distractions come in all shapes and sizes,  People will not acknowledge the reality and truthfulness of Jehovah's words:

 

*** g 1/11 pp. 11-12 A Book You Can Trust—Part 3 ***

True to God’s prophetic Word, in 539 B.C.E.—just as Judah’s 70-year exile was about to end—the seemingly invincible city of Babylon was overthrown by Medo-Persian armies. In time, the city became a heap of ruins—just as predicted. No human could foretell such a striking achievement. Without a doubt, the act of prophesying, or foretelling events in advance, sets the Author of the Bible—the true God, Jehovah—apart from any other god.—Isaiah 46:9, 10.

 

but they constantly try to glorify human efforts to rebuild ancient cities.

 

Typical...

 

Higher critics of the Bible would like us to believe that all the prophesies in the Bible were written after the fact. _Isa. 13: 19–22 The Dead sea scrolls contained Isaiah scrolls and are dated several centuries B.C.E. Babylon was not completely desolated and uninhabitated until I believe the second or third century A.D.  Peter wrote letters from Babylon in the first century. 

[retroHelen]

The site became an allied war base and was systematically destroyed by their activity as reported a few years ago in the guardian newspaper:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jan/15/iraq.arts1

 

Here's the UNESCO report on the contempt for the site shown by various allied armies to the ancient site that became Camp Alpha during the Iraq Wars:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/08/baby-a11.html

 

 

I did read that the Ziggurat at Ur had also been damaged on one side by shelling as it was in the vicinity of a military aircraft runway.