Demolish != Destroy

I was glancing at 10 Mythical Things that Actually Existed over Sarahmac's shoulder and saw the claim that the Tower of Babel "was a ziggurat named Etemenanki, a temple to the god Marduk that was later destroyed by Alexander the Great."  And I was, like, WTF?  The Macedonian army destroyed Persepolis, but Babylon was treated well AFAIK. 

Well, following the link to Etemenanki, the Wikipedia page states:

In 331 BCE, Alexander the Great captured Babylon and ordered repairs to the Etemenanki; when he returned to the ancient city in 323 BCE, he noted that no progress had been made, and ordered his army to demolish the entire building, to prepare a final rebuilding.

There's a big difference between "destroyed" and "demolished, after years of failed attempts to repair," and we have a responsibility to use phrasing that doesn't completely misrepresent what happened.

And yes, there's a lot of "Duty Calls" at work here.