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Infographic of a stepped brick ziggurat with a broad central staircase and a blue temple at its summit. Labels explain mud-brick cores with baked-brick exteriors, terraced platforms for rituals, and stairways or ramps leading to the gods' temple. The ancient brick ziggurat of Choqa Zanbil in Iran rises in stepped layers from a flat, sandy landscape under a blue sky. The Great Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq, a massive ancient brick structure with broad staircases and terraced levels, stands alone in a barren landscape. Ziggurat at Choghā Zanbīl, near Susa, Iran. Mari: ziggurat Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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Type Description Contributor Date
Added media. Nov 13, 2026
Article revised and updated. Nov 10, 2026
Modified link of Web site: Oracc - Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses - The ziggurat and its temples. Oct 25, 2026
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk. Jan 23, 2026
Add new Web site: Oracc - Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses - The ziggurat and its temples. Sep 05, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Discrete Ziggurat: A Time-Memory Trade-off for Sampling from a Gaussian Distribution over the Integers (PDF). Mar 22, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Ziggurats: A viewer's guide (PDF). Jan 07, 2025
Added assembly title and cross-reference to ziggurat at Ur article. Dec 15, 2023
Add new Web site: Smarthistory - Ziggurat of Ur. Nov 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Smarthistory - Ziggurat of Ur. Nov 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Penn Museum - The Ziggurat of Ur. Jul 17, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Sumeria - Ziggurats. May 26, 2023
Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Ziggurat: A Mesopotamian Manmade Mountain to Reach the Gods. Mar 02, 2023
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Ziggurat. Dec 23, 2022
Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - Ziggurat. Sep 21, 2022
Corrected display issue. Feb 11, 2020
Media added. Jun 27, 2011
Article revised. Jun 06, 2005
Article revised. Mar 10, 2005
Article revised. Mar 28, 2003
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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