Images of lions protected the Processional Way of Ishtar Gate, a large section of which stands in Berlin's Pergamon Museum, reportedly the world's oldest architectural museum. The gate was the eighth in the inner city of Babylon and was constructed about 575 B.C. by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II.
13 January 2010
Lions warned visitors to inner-city Babylon
Images of lions protected the Processional Way of Ishtar Gate, a large section of which stands in Berlin's Pergamon Museum, reportedly the world's oldest architectural museum. The gate was the eighth in the inner city of Babylon and was constructed about 575 B.C. by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II.
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