@neologist,
The Bible says in several places that Babylon was completely destroyed... Yet when the US invaded Iraq the second time they found Babylon completely intact and no holy war or battle had ever been waged to destroy the city. The city was captured many times... In fact, "millions" of Babylonian stone tablets still lay unearthed waiting to be deciphered. Even Alexander the Great did not "destroy" Babylon. What actually happened was the great river bordering the city simply meandered away by completely natural means.
Once again it is Biblical writers imposing their prejudices and not their love on their neighbors... Babylon was lost simply to the desert sands so it was fair game to write a false history of the city... In other words, lies...
The following verses suggest that Babylon is destroyed, it will be destroyed forever, never to rise again...Isaiah 13:19-20; Jeremiah 50:39-40, 51:62; Revelation 18:22, 23
Well, just as the Israelites never built the great pyramids, Babylon was not destroyed by God or his people... In fact, the precise everyday life and religion of Babylon are, to a great extent, yet to be uncovered. Although we still know of the stories of Babylon and their religion because they were preserved in Norse sagas and many other pagan religions. Parallel stories of the Babylonian Gods have been discovered as far away as Easter Island in their own myths from antiquities.
As the story of Noah suggests, paganism once flooded the entire earth and it will never disappear by destroying a small city in the Iraqi desert because cultures from India to Iceland to Peru even the Greeks, Roman and Egyptians still have the same parallel pantheon derived from Babylon.
Even the Bible's monotheism was "borrowed" from Akhenaten, one of Egypt's pharaohs.
Unfolding the Secrets of the Copper Scroll of Qumran
http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/unfolding-the-secrets-of-the-copper-scroll-of-qumran
Why would the Israelites of Qumran have a copper scroll with a code concealing the name of Akhenaten?
The Bible holds about as much water as a macaroni strainer...
This is not really a "rebuilding" but more like an "unearthing" of the city...
Do we hate the Norse paganism as bad as we do Babylonian paganism? How about the Greeks or Romans pantheon of Gods? They are nearly identical to that of Babylon. Nope it is just the Babylonians who get a bad rap and death threats from a mythological and jealous deity... Once again it is war and genocide sanctioned by the hateful, barbaric, man-made God of the Bible.