Friday, April 25, 2008
Berlin, Germany, 11-15 Oct 2006: Pergamon Museum
Processional Way & Ishtar Gate
  New Year Feast Day, 200 BC. Ancient Babylonians parade on the Processional Way towards the Ishtar Gate. Fortress walls surround the city, towering on the left and right: a sea of cobalt glazed tiles punctuated every few feet with menacing growling lions. Both were built during Nebuchadnezzar II's reign, c. 600 BC. In the 1930s, German archaeologists at Berlin's Pergamon Museum completed a reconstruction of these structures using tons of fragments excavated in Iraq. |
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Labels: antiquity, architecture, art, Berlin, Germany
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Chicago, USA, 28 Mar-2 Apr 2008: Art Institute
Pictures at an Exhibition
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These are the 30 countries that I have ever set foot on. Airport stopovers don't count!
