"Four hundred fragments of bricks from Babylon’s Ishtar Gate and Processional Way have been stolen. The local Iraqi press reported the loss of 33 pieces last October, but in February the minister of tourism and antiquities, Liwa Sumaism, gave the much higher figure. These came from the Nebuchadnezzar Museum, at the entrance to the city founded in 575BC. The blue-glazed bricks have golden images of bulls, lions and dragons. Excavated from 1900 onwards by German archaeologists, many of the bricks with images were taken to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Part of the structure was reconstructed by Saddam Hussein with modern replicas."
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| Ishtar Gate, Oriental Institute, Chicago. photo Nancy Charak |
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| Ishtar Gate, Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Nancy Charak photo |
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| Ishtar Gate, Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Nancy Charak photo |
My only comment is they finally noticed that some of the bricks are missing?
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Visit The Oriental Institute on the University of Chicago campus.
Go to Berlin, visit the Pergamon Museum.
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