King Nebuchadnezzar II ordered the construction of the gate and dedicated it to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar. The gate was constructed in about 575 BC on the north side of the city.
The roof and doors of the gate were made of cedar, according to the ded...
Howard Carter discovered it underneath the remains of workmen's huts built during the Ramesside Period. Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by English Egyptologist and his team in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, in 1922. KV62 is the standard Egyptologi...