Visual Timeline: Ziggurat

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5000 BCE - 4100 BCE: First ziggurats in Mesopotamia thought to appear during the Ubaid Period.
 
 
4100 BCE - 2900 BCE: Sumerian ziggurats are built during the Uruk Period.
 
 
3000 BCE: Ziggurat of Uruk is built.
 
 
3000 BCE - 500 BCE: Ziggurats are built and used as religious sites throughout Mesopotamia.
 
 
2900 BCE - 2334 BCE: Ziggurats continue to be built in every city center during the Early Dynastic Period.
 
 
2100 BCE: Ziggurats in use in Sumerian cities of Eridu, Uruk, Ur, Nippur and elsewhere
 
 
2047 BCE - 1982 BCE: Ziggurat of Ur is built.
 
 
1300 BCE - 900 BCE: Ziggurat of Babylon is built.
 
 
689 BCE: Ziggurat of Babylon destroyed with the rest of the city by King Sennacherib.
 
 
681 BCE - 562 BCE: Ziggurat of Babylon is rebuilt.
 
 
500 BCE: Ziggurats are abandoned and no new ones built in Mesopotamia.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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