Ziggurat, Ashur, Iraq, 1977. Ziggurats were temple towers of terraced pyramid form built by the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia. Ashur was the capital of Assyria between 1813 and 1781 BC, and was the religious centre of the empire. A Muslim graveyard is in the foreground
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