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 ...

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. When Antipater of Sidon, the Greek poet of the 2nd Century ...

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 ...

US soldiers take pictures of the Ishtar Gate in the ancient city of Babylon, on September 28, 2003. At ancient Babylon's Ishtar Gate -- workers labour with a heavy saw, hammers, a chisel and ...

The Ishtar Gate led to Babylon’s Processional Way, which stretched for over half a mile across the city. A statue of the god Marduk was carried along it during the New Year Festival.

Nebuchadrezzar’s empire would not long survive him. A short 22 years after his death, Babylonia fell to Cyrus the Great, king of Persia. (See also: Inside the 30-year quest for Babylon's Ishtar ...

Visitors walk towards a replica of the Gate of Ishtar at the archaeological site of ancient Babylon, about 50 miles south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on 14 November 2020 (AFP/Getty) ...

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. When Antipater of Sidon, the Greek poet of the 2nd Century ...