The ziggurat of Nimrud seen in the upper left-hand corner of satellite images from late August, early October, mid October, and early November (gif by the author from photos courtesy American Schools ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ziggurat of Ur is in modern-day Iraq. حسن/Unsplash A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping ...

Photo taken on Dec. 20, 2019 shows the grand ziggurat in ancient site of Dur Kurigalzu in the western outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. The site of Dur Kurigalzu, which means "Kurigalzu's castle" in Arabic, ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...