Saddam Hussein's Abandoned Babylon - A Journey to the Palace of a Dictator Who Wanted to Be Nebuchadnezzar - iefimerida.gr

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Saddam saw himself as the reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar, and to prove it, he spent millions on a massive reconstruction of Babylon. Iraqi Meki Mohammed Farhoud grew up in Kawaris, a small village on the banks of the Euphrates River, among pomegranate, orange and date palm trees. The village was a stone’s throw from the ruins of ancient Babylon. It was the Mesopotamian kingdom that Hammurabi helped to build into one of the world’s greatest cit…