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In ancient Mesopotamia, what was a ziggurat?

  • Written by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Macquarie University
In ancient Mesopotamia, what was a ziggurat?The ziggurat of Ur is in modern-day Iraq.حسن/Unsplash

A 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...

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