Photos at link are "Getty" which we are not suppose to post but the story itself is still interesting. This must be old "news" but a handful of stories on this have just come out. And to cut to the chase, he rebuilt some of it but some of the site still has the original ruins.
FIT FOR A TYRANT Inside abandoned Babylon built by Saddam Hussein who thought he was reincarnation of ancient king Nebuchadnezzar
Nicola Stow
3 Dec 2019, 11:10Updated: 3 Dec 2019, 11:39
FASCINATING photographs show inside the abandoned Babylon built by Saddam Hussein - who called himself the "son of King Nebuchadnezzar".
Pictures show the dead despot's vision for the ancient city after becoming obsessed with the Babylonian ruler during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.
Nebuchadnezzar, the second and greatest king of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia, was notorious for waging bloody wars to seize large swathes of current day Iran and Israel.
Read more at: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/worldnews/10471722/babylon-king-nebuchadnezzar-saddam-hussein/
