Monday 28 October 2013

Germany

Ischtar-Tor or the Ishtar Gate was the eight gate to the inner city of Babylon. It was constructed in about 575 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the city.
A reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate and Processional Way was built at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin out of material excavated by Robert Koldewey and finished in the 1930s

This Ishtar-Tor postcard,  posted on October 7, 2013, by my friend Erhard Molbitz from Postdam, Germany