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The Ishtar Gate (575 BC) was built by King Nebuchadnezzar II as an impressive entrance to ancient Babylon (in modern-day Iraq), fashioned from enameled blue and green bricks and decorated with hundreds of reliefs of dragons and bulls. In 1902 German archaeologists started to unearth it. In 1928 the front part of the gate was rebuilt over a period of two years in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, where it remains today.
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