ISIS Has Destroyed a Nearly 3,000-Year-Old Assyrian Ziggurat The ziggurat of Nimrud was the ancient city’s central temple. Danny Lewis. November 15, 2016. Get our newsletter!

Ziggurats are towering buildings that were erected in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, the earliest of which date back to 2900–2350 BCE.

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society that could upend the accepted narrative of where writing and urban life began.

The ziggurat was built by Shalmaneser III (858–824 BCE), whose father Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BCE) made Nimrud (then known as Kalhu) the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

The ziggurat was the highest expression of Mesopotamian architecture. Because these structures were built with mud-baked bricks, most Mesopotamian ziggurats have been unearthed in a poor state of ...

A spry old man. as regal-looking as a Shakespearean actor, arrived in Manhattan last week to show off his latest creation. Before 68 New York reporters Architect Frank Lloyd Wright unwrapped his ...

Ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud, and its famous ziggurat, bulldozed by retreating Islamic State. IRAQ says its forces have captured the ancient ruins of Nimrud alongside the Islamic State ...

Below: the Ishtar Temple and ziggurat prior to Isis destruction at Nimrud. (Courtesy Michael Danti) The first major dig at the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud since it was decimated by the Islamic State ...

Willie Marlowe’s “Diamond Ziggurat with Color reflection #1, 2, 3.” Marlowe is one of the curators of “Visual Poetry” at Troy’s Arts Center of the Capital Region. William Jaeger ...

The U.S. federal government is relisting the “Ziggurat” office building in Laguna Niguel, ... The building is called the Ziggurat for its resemblance to an ancient Mesopotamian stepped pyramid.