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A new World Monuments Fund (WMF) project in Babylon, funded as part of a $3m donation by the US embassy in Baghdad first bestowed in 2018, aims to repair and restore the famed Ishtar Gate by this ...
Inside the 30-Year Quest for Babylon’s Ishtar Gate Patience and perseverance paid off for German archaeologists who found the beautiful blue portal built by a king and buried by time.
Babylon's bright-blue Ishtar Gate was thought to have been built to celebrate the conquest of Jerusalem — but a new analysis finds that it may have been erected years later.
The Ishtar Gate, named after a Mesopotamian goddess of love and war, was one of eight gateways that provided entry to the inner city of Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (reign 605-562 ...
The Great Gate of Ishtar which stood at the entrance to Babylon has inspired awe since the 6th Century BC. Amanda Ruggeri finds out why.
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from At Ishtar's Gate Adapted from a forgotten story of science and fantasy. A first-person atmospheric game in the finest tradition of 32-bit classics ...
Video shows a 3-D laser-scan animation of Ishtar Gate, the 2,600-year-old main entrance to King Nebuchadnezzar II’s ancient capital, Babylon, in Iraq.
Nebuchadnezzar was a warrior-king of the Neo-Babylonian empire. And now, Kanye West has written an opera inspired by him.