Ziggurat at Ur, c. 2100 B.C.
Ziggurats are a form of ancient temple common to the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians. A Ziggurat is a huge platform with a series of smaller platforms on top. They look like a stepped pyramid with stairs leading to the summit where there was a small temple. Each ziggurat was dedicated to the city's most important god or goddess. Ziggurats are like a mud-brick mountain fit for the gods.Around 2100 B.C. king Ur-Nammu built a ziggurat in honor of the God "Sin". It was called "Etemennigur," which meant "a house whose foundation creates terror." It was built in Ur, south of Iraq and has been visible on the flat Mesopotamian
Recent Calculculations say that it would have taken 1500 men, working a ten-hour day, 5 years to build the ziggurat at Ur. It is believed that the sloping walls were covered with trees and shrubs. All walls were sloping, and all horizontal lines were slightly convex, in order to make them less rigid when seen by the human eye. The ziggurat was built as a bridge between heaven and earth. us/PinckneyvilleMS/Media/Stickney/ziggurat. On top of every sixth layer of bricks, reed matting was placed in a criss-cross manner. The bricks were left to dry and were then baked in a mud oven using dry twigs which were set on fire. The ziggurat was built from small mud bricks that were locally produced. From the base, new steps were added, until the ziggurat was topped by a small sanctuary.
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