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 ...

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Two small clay cylinders, buried for roughly 2,500 years in the ruins of an ancient temple tower, have given archaeologists the first written proof that a Mesopotamian king restored the great ziggurat ...