Gated Community

Wednesday the 24th was our last day in Turkey, so Tuesday we slipped in a visit to the Archeological Museum in Istanbul, one of the largest in the Middle East.

The Gates of Babylon were there:







Why be lion down when you can walk right in?




Guarding the gates of the city of Nebuchadnezzar were creatures not seen these days . . .







Like this serpent-jackal-eagle.





All in all, the museum was pretty dead:
















Which, among other things, gave us a glimpse of what the afterlife looks like:









At least in a Greco-Roman vision.