Archaeological Sites
Babylon and the Ishtar Gate
Fell 539 BC · Hillah, Iraq
UnsolvedThe prize. The wealth of a wonder of the world
Where. Hillah, Iraq
Status. Unsolved
Where. Hillah, Iraq
Status. Unsolved
The account
Babylon, city of the Hanging Gardens and the Ishtar Gate, was the richest city of the ancient world; looted and rebuilt for millennia, its buried levels still surrender treasure.
Leads, where the trail points now
- The city of the Hanging Gardens and the Ishtar Gate; the gate itself is reconstructed in Berlin's Pergamon Museum, while the site near Hillah, Iraq, holds its buried levels.
- The site is protected but was damaged by a 1980s reconstruction and a 2003 military base; work is under Iraqi authority, not open searching.
- The Hanging Gardens have never been located and some scholars now place them at Nineveh instead, which is an open historical lead.
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