Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...
A general view shows the Ziggurat of Ur ruins, ahead of the planned visit of Pope Francis, in Ur near Nassiriya BAGHADAD (Reuters) - Pope Francis is due to hold an inter-religious prayer service at ...
Perched on the outskirts of Crestone, the unique Crestone ziggurat, a yellow spiral tower commissioned by Syrian-American Najeeb Halaby in 1978, stands tall in the San Luis Valley. Maintained by the ...
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First written evidence of 2,500-year-old Kish ziggurat restoration found on clay cylinders
In Iraq, archaeologists have discovered two clay cylinders inscribed with the first known foundation ...
In yet another case of destruction of cultural heritage, ISIS has obliterated the 2,900-year-old ziggurat of Nimrud, a 140-foot-high stepped tower comprised of mud bricks, the Times reports. Nimrud, ...
BAGHDAD - Soldiers from the 16th Engineer Brigade Survey and Design team conducted a site assessment on several buildings at an historic site in Aqar Quf, 20 miles west of Baghdad to assess and verify ...
LAGUNA NIGUEL – The rolling hills of Laguna Niguel are expansive yet predictable, saturated with suburban homes, winding parks and stretching shopping centers. But long before private development took ...
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