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By Christopher Torchia and Ammar Al-Musawi / The Bulletin
November 23, 2008
BABYLON, Iraq — It was one of the world’s first, greatest cities — a place where astronomers mapped the stars millennia ago, and kings created an early code of law and planted what became known as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Yet little remains of the ancient....