From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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>> to be fair Col Coleman is also quoted as saying
>>
>> "If they hadn't moved in, Babylon would have been left at the mercy of
>> looters"
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> MRD.
>
> It did all right for 6,000 years before he turned up.
>
>

  The Assyrians beg to differ with you as in 689 b c. they laid waste to the
city.  They did try to pass off the destruction to the god Marduk though.
Xerxes in 482 b c really pissed off Marduk by burning down his temples and
melting his statues.

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