Regional leaders gathered in Baghdad on Saturday to attend the annual Arab League Summit. They commemorated the union with a ...

Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers ... landmarks built by Nebuchadrezzar II: the dazzling blue Ishtar Gate, now reconstructed and on display at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

The Ishtar Gate, an entrance to the northern part of ... Babylon, an hour's drive south of Baghdad, dates to ancient Mesopotamia. The city on the banks of the Euphrates River was the home of ...

The original Ishtar Gate (left, a 1980s replica ... the southern part of the land known as Mesopotamia. Atemple complex celebrated the people’s deities—particularly the life-giving goddess ...