Nebuchadnezzar II builds the Ishtar Gate
Blue glazed bricks with bulls and dragons at Babylon's gate
Around 575 BC King Nebuchadnezzar II rebuilt the northern entrance to Babylon, the gate of the goddess Ishtar. It was faced with blue glazed bricks bearing reliefs of bulls and mušḫuššu dragons; a reconstruction made from the excavated bricks stands in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 600 BC Greeks found Massalia — 25 years earlier
- c. 550 BC Greeks found Olbia — 25 years later
Asia
- c. 563 BC Birth of the Buddha — 12 years later
- 551 BC Birth of Confucius — 24 years later
Alive at the time
- Cyrus the Great (aged 25)
- Nebuchadnezzar II (aged 67)
- Solon (aged 55)
- Sappho (aged 55)
- Thales of Miletus (aged 49)
- Mahavira (aged 24)
- Anaximander (aged 35)