The sun hangs heavy over central Iraq in late afternoon, painting the ruins of Babylon in heat and light. Dust rises from the ground in soft clouds, carrying a faint scent that seems older than time ...

BABYLON, Iraq (AFP) – At ancient Babylon's Ishtar Gate, Iraqi workers labour with a heavy saw, hammers, a chisel and crowbar to break up and remove a concrete slab that is hastening the structure's ...

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 ...

"This catalogue is published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in association with Princeton University Press on the occasion of the exhibition 'A wonder to ...

Restoration work at the Temple of Ninmakh involved fixing not just war-related damage, but also ill-conceived repairs undertaken last century Photo: Hadani Ditmars Mentioned in the sacred texts of all ...

Archaeologists measured the magnetic fields found in clay bricks to determine the construction date of Babylon's Ishtar Gate. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...