Given I have investigated the design of Ishtar Gate, I would probably ask him more about the design, there is one feature in the drawings that does not seem probable, having to do with the runway that goes beside the guard towers. My bet is that the runways were used to link them together, and they used horses or runners to link different parts of the battlement . . . but the diagram shows them stopping, and entering a building via a archway, a door in fact, and going cross-ways through the building, when my bet is that they went through without an arched doorway, so as to be a faster transit, which I actually put into the design I created. You can view the document I referenced here . . . . The Acropolis at Babylon: A Reconstruction during the Late 6th Century B.C. [oaktrust.library.tamu.edu] My other question would be, where did you put the cedar roof over the gate? This question was a real dilemma for me, and I am still not satisfied with the two possible answers I came up with . . . . that he was referring to the upper levels of the guard towers, which I incorporated in the construction I made, or, the more likely scenario, he was referring to what is called the "Inner Ishtar Gate", which I have not constructed. Then there is the question about where the large doors made of cedar and bronze . . . where were they, and what decoration were they adored with?

@Archeus_Lore Do you ''tour'' the complex while waiting to fall asleep? I've ''toured'' the temples at Thebes, myself. Idle fun...but...I'd still like to have a few beers with the Pharaoh Hatshepsut...just to see how she managed to pull off being the first WOMAN to hold that title in a few thousand years!

I generally steal what I can from what is known, and try to fill in the blanks where it is unknown. Leonard Cottrell, in the book "The Anvil of Civilization " had some interesting thoughts about Egypt, he believed that writing actually originated there, as opposed to Mesopotamia, and cited some pretty good reasons for this belief, although it was not quite enough to really prove it. Egypt is one of the places I have been, the Pyramids and what was then the Cairo Museum. Awe-inspiring. The whole span of history from the dinosaurs to the end of the Roman era I find particularly fascinating, and history in general. BTW, the photos are almost three times the size here, they seem to have reduced them down in size.

To see full-sized, go to [vk.com] It may be of interest to you that Ishtar / Inanna, was one of the longest reigning deities . . . for thousands of years, if I have it right, and it is doubtful any other man-made good rivaled that. It is a shame that the record is so muddled that we cannot understand more about these origins.