Iraq stargate
The term "Iraq stargate" has been applied to alleged portal sites in locations near Baghdad, at the ziggurat complex in Ur and Nasiriyah, to the cylinder seal collection of the National Museum of Iraq said to encode portal-access glyphs, and to the alleged tomb of Gilgamesh reportedly identified by a German archaeological team weeks before the invasion. Whether these refer to one site, several sites, or different conjectures about the same site is not consistent across sources.
Several authors have alleged that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was motivated, in part, by U.S. interest in seizing one or more artifacts or intact pieces of ancient interdimensional technologies and related Sumerian artifacts inside Iraq.
Alleged sites
The Baghdad-area location is described in a remote-viewing session conducted on 4 February 2003 with Dan Burisch's research team at Project Lotus, placing it approximately ten miles south-southeast of Baghdad: a concealed entry under wood cover, a stairwell, and an underground work area; the same imagery is said to have shown Saddam Hussein entering the structure, identified after the invasion as Saddam's spider hole.
The site near Ur is alleged to lie at or beneath the Great Ziggurat of Ur in southern Iraq, identified by Michael Salla as the operative reference for "the Iraqi stargate" in his 2003 article SADDAM OR STARGATE? What is Task Force 20's main objective?
Swaruu of Erra, in the Cosmic Agency transcripts, identifies two Iraqi portal locations of Elohi construction — one in the Baghdad area, one at "Alt Ur" — characterised as "antique-artificial" infrastructure, predominantly inoperative.
Tomb of Gilgamesh
A separate but adjacent claim concerns the alleged 2003 identification of the tomb of Gilgamesh by an Iraqi-German archaeological team led by Jörg Fassbinder of the Bavarian State Department of Historical Monuments. Subsurface radar imagery near the Euphrates at the ancient site of Uruk was reported in April 2003 to match the description of the king's tomb in Tablet XI; the team was withdrawn within weeks as the 2003 invasion of Iraq commenced and the site has not been re-entered. Exopolitical commentary subsequently linked the tomb's reported sealing to the broader claim that the invasion's true objective was control of Anunnaki-era artifacts and infrastructure.
Cylinder seals and reverse-engineering claims
The proposed mechanism connecting the Sumerian record to alleged operational portal technology is the cylinder seal: thousands of clay cylinder seals from the National Museum of Iraq are claimed in this literature to encode portal-access glyphs, with the underlying information attributed to an off-world source rather than to the seals themselves. The widely-reported looting of the museum's cylinder seal collection during the early days of the 2003 operation, with partial subsequent recovery, has been folded into this framing as removal of portal-related material under cover of war.
Strategic-rationale claim
According to Michael Salla (as summarised by Len Kasten in The Secret History of Extraterrestrials), U.S., Russian, German, and French intelligence services were aware of an Anunnaki-era technological apparatus left behind in the region, and the invasion was a pre-emptive seizure of that apparatus before a European-Iraqi research alliance — already underway under Saddam Hussein — could reverse-engineer it. Dan Burisch has framed the same operation as the U.S. government's effort to retrieve "rings" — described as "a different kind of weapon of mass destruction" — and to extract cuneiform texts on the Anak from inside the museum.