Babylon Flattened

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I'm personally saddened to read about this. I visited Babylon several times over 20 years ago when I worked near there. It was truly desolate, but awesome. The old road down to the river was paved with ancient asphalt that was in better shape than most of our city streets. The walls along the entry to the center of the city still had the images of horses and chariots formed by recessed bricks. I could see the plains where Nebucadnezer ate the grass. It drove me to read the Bible clear through for the very first time.

It is sad that the site is so destroyed. But it was pretty bad off before our troops got there as well. The crumbling walls screamed out "Babylon is fallen". I even heard a jackal once.
 
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