middle bronze age - 21st Century BC
The Ziggurat at Ur is probably the most famous, but the Ziggurat at Teppe Sialk is also rather famous.
Great Ziggurat of Ur
2100b.C.
Great Ziggurat of Ur
The first Ziggurat was make by Nebbacanezer II in about 2000 B.C.
The Ziggurat of Ur was built in, 2100 b.c.
Ziggurat temples were structures built in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly in present-day Iraq and Iran. One well-known ziggurat temple is the Great Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq.
The first Ziggurat at Ur was built by King Ur-Nammu, a ruler of the ancient city-state of Ur in Mesopotamia around 2100 BC. He constructed the Great Ziggurat of Ur as a temple dedicated to the moon god Nanna.
Ur-Nammu was the king that ordered the ziggurat at Ur to be built.
The Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu and the Great Pyramids of Giza are both ancient structures, but they have key differences. The Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu is a stepped pyramid in Mesopotamia, primarily used for religious purposes and worship. The Great Pyramids of Giza, on the other hand, are massive tombs in Egypt built as burial monuments for pharaohs. Additionally, the Great Pyramids of Giza are larger in scale and more complex in construction compared to the Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu.
There is no single "Ziggurat of Mesopotamia", a Ziggurat is the name for a type of structure built first by the Sumerians, but also by the Elamites, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians as part of temple complexes dedicated to their local religions. The most famous may be the "Great Ziggurat of Ur" was built by King Ur-Nammu in about the 21st century BC
The ziggurat at Ur was excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley in the 1920s. Woolley's excavation revealed the remains of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, including the ziggurat dedicated to the moon god Nanna.