Nebuchadnezzar II
In the forty-three years of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar II made the most of the time employing a vast army of slave labor. One of his biggest projects was surrounding his city with walls so thick that chariot races were conducted around the tops and stretched fifty-six miles in length, encircling an area of two hundred square acres. The bricks of the walls were faced with a bright blue and bore the inscription, “I am Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon."
People also wonder about a bridge that he had built across the Euphrates river. The bridge was built with asphalt covered brick piers that were streamlined to reduce upstream water resistance and downstream turbulence which would otherwise undermine the foundation. Nebuchadnezzar ll is also portrayed in the Bible. In stories like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abendago and when he becomes so prideful and greedy that God humbles him, causing him to loose all of his sanity and live in the wild like cattle for seven years.