Ziggurats

By 4000 BC. Eridu. Made out of mud bricks.

When archaeologists

excavate platforms like the one at Eridu they find foundations

of buildings underneath each other going back

through time.

The homes of the gods to be higher than their own houses.

Some of the buildings excavated at Uruk date to around 3200 B.C. Some buildings had foundations of stone: a rare and expensive material in Sumer.

The remains of mud-brick temples at Uruk.

The Sumerians believed the gods came from the mountains. Some people think that the temples were built on platforms to look like mountains.

A brick stamped with the titles of King Ur-Nammu. (A dog walked across the damp brick)

Ur-Nammu, ruler of Ur, ca.3000 BC New Ziggurates!

All that remains of the towering ziggurat at Babylon is

a muddy ditch full of reeds.

The Kassite ziggurat at Dur Kurigalzu(14th century B.C.)

with the lower platform restored.

A Mesopotamian

Myth (about how and why humans were

created)

THE STORY OF THE GODS…

Tiamat

Marduk

The epic of Gilgamesh on clay stone, in Cuneiform