By BaghdadhopeAfter the meetings the Iraqi bishops had in Berlin with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and other personalities such as the Cardinal Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky, Archbishop of Berlin, Mgr. Jacques Isaac and Mgr. Luis Sako, respectively Chaldean bishops of Baghdad and Kirkuk, tomorrow will privately visit the Pergamon Museum in Berlin where they will admire, among other works preserved by the Museum of Ancient Art of the Near East, the famous Ishtar Gate of Babylon and the exihibition: "Babylon myth and truth"
The piece of news of this visit reminds us the link between Iraq and Italy in the archaeological field and the work of the "Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino per il Medio Oriente e l’Asia" whose web site (Italian and English) can be reached by clicking here and that shows here a beautiful description of the Ishtar Gate.
It is worth remembering that the exact title of the Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, currently Cardinal Mar Emmanuel III Delly, is "Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans."
Photo by Centro Scavi Torino