Images of Pazuzu have been found throughout the ancient Middle East, dating to the 1st millennium BCE, including the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and late Babylonian periods. Not creeped out yet?

Zhu Meng, a researcher at the Palace Museum, says glaze was used to decorate the Ishtar Gate in the city of Babylon in the sixth century BC. "However, glaze in Chinese architecture is not purely for ...

The monument is very likely dated back to a previous era than the Persepolis Terrace foundation and it is characterized by a glazed brick relief panel, clearly inspired by the Ishtar Gate of Babylon.

The two have great adventures together. At one point, Gilgamesh turn down a proposal of marriage from the ferocious goddess of love and war, Ishtar; at another, Enkidu dies, and high and mighty ...