Iraq
There are 608 items in Iraq:
Babylon, Figurine of Europa on a bull |
Babylon, Figurine of Heracles |
Babylon, Gate of Ištar |
Babylon, Gate of Ištar, Reconstruction |
Babylon, Hanging Gardens
Hanging Gardens of Babylon: one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. There is no evidence that it existed.Babylon was the cultural capital of the ancient Near East. Many monuments have become famous, like the Ištar Gate, now in…Babylon, Ishtar Gate
Walls of Babylon and Ištar Gate: two famous monuments in Babylon, belonging to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Ištar…
Babylon, Neo-Hittite lion |
Babylon, obelisk
Obelisk of Babylon: in some lists, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It did not exist.In the first century BCE, Diodorus of Sicily, probably quoting Ctesias of Cnidus, tells the following legend about queen Semiramis of Assyria: She…
Babylon, Palace wall |
Babylon, Procession Street, Decoration, Lion |
Babylon, Procession Street, Decoration, Lions |
Babylon, Royal procession entering the Gate of Ištar. In front: the Procession Street; center: the Ištar Gate; on the horizon: the Etemenanki. |