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Excavating buried Babylon. The Triumphal Gateway of the goddess Ishtar and the processional road of the god Marduk. The gateway consists of six square pillars, three on each side, forty feet high and twelve feet broad. In the background is the mound of Kasr, or the royal city mound of Nebuchadnezzar.



Source: Steve Kirch, collector, and creator of a great website about SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN in the past

Restoration by: magscanner