CECILIA CLARK P HOTOGRAPHY

Today we checked out of our Baghdad hotel and drove the approximately 1.5 hours to Babylon where Mahdi gave us a tour. The photo above is a reproduction of the Ishtar Gate. The original is in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. We saw the Ishtar Temple, procession avenue, grand hall, Babylon Lion statue, and the throne room where some think Alexander the Great died. In the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, Babylon may have been the largest city in the world with as many as 200,000 reside