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Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Ishtar gate. The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon (in the area of present-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq).It was constructed c. 569 BC [1] by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the city.
Seleucus had retaken Babylon, sometime between 312-311 B.C. He had been the province's satrap before, but was forced to leave, fearing Antigonus ' increasing power and cruelty. The Antigonids made several attempts to retake the "gateway" to the rich eastern satrapies, but ended in failure.
Auguste Rodin was commissioned to make a pair of bronze doors to symbolize the gates of hell. He received the commission on August 20, 1880, for a new art museum in Paris, to exhibit at the 1889 Exposition Universelle, which ultimately did not open; however in 1900, some of them were part of his first solo exhibition in Paris.
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.
Waters of Babylon (1920) by Gebhard Fugel; Jews sit on the banks of the Tigris, which flows through Babylon, and remembering Jerusalem. Psalm 137 tells us about this event: [32] "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 137:1 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." 137:5
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is telling his “origin story” in his own words with the memoir Source Code, being released on Feb. 4 "My parents and early friends put me in a position to have a ...
Over 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, 42% fewer than the record number who made the perilous jungle crossing from South America a year earlier, Panama's migration ...
A partial view of the ruins of Babylon. The form of a Sumerian temple is manifestation of Near Eastern cosmology, which described the world as a disc of land which was surrounded by a salt water ocean, both of which floated on another sea of fresh water called apsu, above them was a hemispherical firmament which regulated time.