Saddam stamped his own name into Nebuchadnezzar's walls at Babylon and people say that's when the bad luck started

Babylon, Hillah, south of Baghdad. In the 80s Saddam rebuilt parts of the ancient city right on top of the original Nebuchadnezzar II foundations, including a whole palace. Archaeologists were horrified, you can't undo that, you've contaminated the real thing. The detail that gives me chills: he had……