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How many Ziggurats were there in total?

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Interesting Facts About Ziggurats. Part of the The Genesis Key involves the excavation of a ziggurat in Tell-Fara, Iraq, near Babylon. Tell-fara was known as Shuruppak in ancient Sumer and is closely linked to the Great Flood story in the Old Testament of the Bible. read more

Ziggurats were built by the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Elamites, Eblaites and Babylonians for local religions, predominantly Mesopotamian religion and Elamite religion. Each ziggurat was part of a temple complex which included other buildings. read more

The Mesopotamians made ziggurats as home of gods and the Egyptians made the Pyramids as last home of the Pharaoh (who was functionally a god). I haven't seen anyone mention the ziggurat which still stands in the very historic and cultured territory of Persia (modern Iran). There is a ziggurat named Chogha Zanbil. read more

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