Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization ...

The GSA originally required bidders to preserve the tower, which resembles the ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia, but didn’t get any offers. After dropping the requirement to keep the building ...

Among the most significant features of the archaeological site is the Ninurta Temple—with its ziggurat (stepped ... was a major civilization of ancient Mesopotamia—a historic region centered ...

General contractor Huber, Hunt and Nichols was awarded an $18.5 million contract in 1968 to build a 1-million-square-foot, seven-floor building that would resemble an ancient Babylonian temple called ...

The ancient world’s march toward urbanization was uneven. While Mesopotamia was sprouting city-states along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and building massive monuments like the Ziggurat of Ur (in ...

But the Ziggurat has been hot since Uncle Sam ... a stepped pyramid in ancient Mesopotamia. Each day draws more bids, and each day extends the auction for the 91-acre property in south Orange ...

OWEN BREWER Sacramento Bee file Ziggurats can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia, where the stepped structure and its rectangular base served as sacred places. The buildings were designed to ...

The federal government has tried for years to sell the 53-year-old concrete building designed by William Pereira that resembles a Ziggurat, an ancient stepped pyramid in Mesopotamia. The federal ...

Disused statues were dusted off and returned to temples, aspects of the writing system were changed to mimic ancient Sumerian, and long-crumbled ziggurats were thoroughly restored. As an ...

The Crestone ziggurat is the only spiritual structure of its kind in the U.S. The monument in southern Colorado mirrors those from ancient Mesopotamia. The ziggurat is maintained by the Karma ...