In ancient Mesopotamia, what was a ziggurat?

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...
The Gazette

This ziggurat in Colorado’s San Luis Valley is the only spiritual structure of its kind in the U.S

Perched on the outskirts of Crestone, the unique Crestone ziggurat, a yellow spiral tower commissioned by Syrian-American Najeeb Halaby in 1978, stands tall in the San Luis Valley. Maintained by the ...
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Clay cylinders reveal written proof of a 2,500-year-old ziggurat restoration

Two small clay cylinders, buried for roughly 2,500 years in the ruins of an ancient temple tower, have given archaeologists the first written proof that a Mesopotamian king restored the great ziggurat ...
Phys.org

Ancient clay cylinders provide first foundation text documenting Nebuchadnezzar II's restoration of the ziggurat of Kish

In 2013, two local Iraqis handed over two inscribed clay cylinders to the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. Subsequent analysis and translation of the inscriptions published in Iraq revealed ...
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First written evidence of 2,500-year-old Kish ziggurat restoration found on clay cylinders

In Iraq, archaeologists have discovered two clay cylinders inscribed with the first known foundation ...