Including the pyramids of ancient Egypt, the ziggurats of Mesopotamia, and the palaces of Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece, this is a look at some of the most impressive and important examples of ...

Yet the remains of the four ziggurats of Eridu, Uruk and Ur, however eroded, still tower over the desert landscape and provide a striking visual testimony of the antiquity and durability of the most ...