Ancient Buildings of Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia was a massive empire that had great architecture. The ziggurat was a temple built to honor the main god of the city and where people worshipped that god. The Tower of Babel was a huge ziggurat built to honor the main god of the city. The Tombs of Ur were tombs that the people and their servants would be laid once they died. Not only were they good buildings, but the architecture that went into them was great as well.
The ziggurat was a temple built to honor the main god of the city and where people worshipped that god. There was a shrine for the god on the top floor of the ziggurat. The people would come to the ziggurat to worship and give their sacrifices to the god. The man who built the Ziggurat of Ur was Ur-Nammu and his son, Shulgi, finished it. The core of the ziggurat is made of mud brick, covered with baked bricks, and laid with bitumen. Fired bricks made up the outside of the ziggurat. Each city would have a ziggurat in the middle of the city. The ziggurat was built high so the god could hear the people better.
The Tower of Babel was a ziggurat in Babylon that was built to worship the god of the city. The Tower of Babel was made out of baked bricks laid with bitumen and was 300 feet high. It was built by Nimrod, a man who turned people away from the God of the jews. It was built high so they could hear their god better.
The tombs of Ur were tombs where the dead would be buried. In the tombs they would bury the people's jewelry with them. Sometimes they would bury the people under their house. The royalty would be buried with hand maidens, musicians, stone figurines, and servants. They would also be buried with items they thought they needed in the underworld. The royalty would mostly be buried in a coffin. The dead would be identified by a cylinder seal pinned to sleeve.
Ancient Mesopotamia was a massive empire that had great architecture. The buildings were mostly made out of brick and they all had a purpose. As you can see, Nimrod and Ur-nammu were great architects. Today you can still visit a ziggurat in Iraq. The buildings in Mesopotamia are a display of the work skills and math that went into them.
