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

Babylon's bright-blue Ishtar Gate was thought to have been built to celebrate the conquest of Jerusalem — but a new analysis finds that it may have been erected years later. The iconic glazed ...

The Beautiful Blue GateThe most famous of the eight gates Nebuchadrezzar II built around Babylon, this gate was dedicated to Ishtar, goddess of love and war, and was the crowning glory of the king ...

The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United Nations ...

A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate Edited by Anastasia Amrhein, Clare Fitzgerald, and Elizabeth Knott An in-depth and beautifully illustrated look at one of ...

including against Babylon, and his vast expansion of Nineveh. It is believed the relics once adorned his palace, and were then moved to the Mashki Gate, Fadel Mohammed Khodr, head of the Iraqi ...

A moving story of a people reclaiming their cultural heritage after an occupying force tried to erase it. Priceless artifacts from the Assyrian Empire were destroyed during the Isis occupation of ...

Fate series, having unique mythological and historical figures summoned to battle for the Holy Grail, presents some of the most powerful characters of all time, and among these powerful beings ...

A Babylon teen who was driving the night of a crash with a vehicle that ran a red light has died, authorities said Thursday, the same day as funeral services for an 18-year-old passenger in her SUV.

Work is underway on a major renovation of the Long Island Rail Road’s Babylon station, and it will require keeping half the station’s platforms shut down for most of the next 20 months ...

ALPINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A new West Michigan eatery offers Iraqi Mediterranean flavors and a fully halal menu. Babylon ...

Gate valves (also known as knife valves or slide valves) are linear motion valves in which a flat closure element slides into the flow stream to provide shut-off. They are one of the most common ...