Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

Italian Mesopotamian historian Mario Liverani writes ... with the brief return of Sumerian power under Ur III, the ziggurat would be erected on the ruins of all that had gone before.

The Sumerians may have also invented religion by building towering temples called ziggurats in their cities ... her worship spread to other Mesopotamian cities, where she was known as Ishtar ...

The ruins are now abandoned, save for a solitary shopkeeper who sits in a ramshackle hut marked "Shop Ziggurat," where he sells trinkets and Mesopotamian-themed souvenirs. I went to Ur in May 2008 ...

The Sumerian King List is a catalog of Mesopotamian kings found in various archaeological ... It was later reconstructed as a ziggurat by King Ur-Nammu around the 21st century BCE. Mythological ...

and was taken over and developed by succeeding Mesopotamian civilisations such as the Assyrians. Ziggurats were the focal and spiritual centre of the city, the earthly dwellings of the gods ...

According to the U.S. Department of Defense, The Great Ziggurat was built as a place of worship and dedicated to the moon god Nanna in the Sumerian city of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia. Northern ...