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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.
In the process the 2,500-year-old brick pavement to the Ishtar Gate was smashed by tanks and the gate itself damaged. The archaeology-rich subsoil was bulldozed to fill sandbags, and large areas covered in compacted gravel for helipads and car parks. Babylon is being rendered archaeologically barren".
Replica Ishtar Gate in Hillah. Hillah is located near the ruins of ancient Babylon. It is likely that Babylon was founded in the third millennium BC and rose to prominence over the next thousand years. By the 18th century BC the city was the centre of the empire of Hammurabi. Various empires controlled Babylon over the following centuries.
Robert Johann Koldewey (10 September 1855 – 4 February 1925) was a German archaeologist, famous for his in-depth excavation of the ancient city of Babylon in modern-day Iraq. He was born in Blankenburg am Harz in Germany , the duchy of Brunswick , and died in Berlin at the age of 69.
In the 1960s, a replica of the Ishtar Gate and a reconstruction of Ninmakh Temple were built on site. [112] In February 1978, the Ba'athist government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, began the "Archaeological Restoration of Babylon Project": reconstructing features of the ancient city atop its ruins. These features included the Southern Palace of ...
The Lion of Babylon from a portion of the Processional Way leading to the Ishtar Gate. The Lion of Babylon is ... Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Iraq 1932-1959 ...
Eight years ago, two US Marines from very different walks of life met for the first time when they were put on guard duty at 7:30 in the morning.
It came from Babylon, Iraq, and dates to the time of Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BCE), king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Striding Lion is one of many such reliefs that decorated the walls of the palace's ceremonial hall and very similar to the lions that line the processional way from the Ishtar Gate to the temple of Marduk.