In ancient Mesopotamia, what was a ziggurat?
- Written by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Macquarie University
The ziggurat of Ur is in modern-day Iraq.حسن/UnsplashA ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid.
Ziggurats were common in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq) from around 4,000 to 500 BCE.
Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, they were not places of royal...





