The city of Ur in southern Iraq was one of the great centers of ancient Mesopotamia, and its most famous monument is the Great Ziggurat built for the moon god Nanna around 2050 BCE. Rising above a ...

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 modern Iraq) from around 4,000 ...