In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to ...

Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization around 6000 years ago and the birthplace of the first writing system. Each ...

Ziggurat of Ur. Existing for over 4,000 years, the Ziggurat of Ur, standing 30 meters tall in Iraq, initially served as a temple to worship the Mesopotamian moon god, Nanna. ... As one of the oldest ...

MR. LEONARD WOOLLEY'S first report on the current season's work at Ur, which appeared in the Times for Feb. 12, chronicles inter alia the discovery of a burial of a type “quite out of the ...

Ziggurat Of Ur: Ur, Iraq US ARMY/AFP via Getty Images. Built in what was once the city of Ur in present-day Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was known as Etemenniguru. ... Made of brick and covered in ...

UR, Iraq, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Ur's palaces and temples lie in ruins, but its hulking Ziggurat still dominates the desert flatlands of what is now southern Iraq, as it has for millennia. Climbing the ...

Notable examples include the Great Ziggurat of Ur near Nasiriyah, the Ziggurat of Akar Kuf, the ruined Etemenanki in ... and social life. Sumerian cities had roads, buildings, and houses made of clay ...

King Ur-Nammu laid the first brick of the ziggurat in 2100 BC, and construction was later completed by his son, King Shulgi, at which time the city was the flourishing capital of Mesopotamia. But by ...