![]() Walls of yellow brick, 40 feet high and topped with pointed crenelations, have replaced the mounds that once marked the Palace foundations. ![]() For the last three years, over a thousand laborers imported from the Sudan (Iraqi men were away fighting Iran) have worked seven days a week through wet winters and scorching summers to rebuild what archeologists call King Nebuchadnezzar's Southern Palace - a vast complex of some 500 rooms and the reputed site of the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
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