A replica of this gateway now serves as a prime tourist attraction in Iraq, enticing visitors to the historic city of Babylon ...

Despite 20 years of war, repression and economic sanctions in Iraq, archaeologists ... of the famous Lion of Babylon and T-shirts bearing faux cuneiform. The real Ishtar Gate, built by ...

The site of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon was converted into Camp Alpha shortly after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 ... were damaged include the Ishtar Gate and the Processional Way ...

The site of Babylon was first identified in the 1800s in what is now Iraq. Later excavations ... the dazzling blue Ishtar Gate, now reconstructed and on display at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

A panel composed of glazed nicks shows a lion in bas relief, symbolizing Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, from the Ishtar gate, Babylon, dating to Nabuchadnessar (650-562.B.C.), is ...