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June 24th 2012

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View of ziggurat from South, Richard Ellis, Bryn Mawr College, taken 1967. This particular ziggurat is found in Ur, currently Iraq; belonging to the third dynasty, which emerged after the fall of the Akkadians, its name in Sumerian means “house whose foundation creates terror.”

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View of ziggurat from South, Richard Ellis, Bryn Mawr College, taken 1967. This particular ziggurat is found in Ur, currently Iraq; belonging to the third dynasty, which emerged after the fall of the Akkadians, its name in Sumerian means “house whose foundation creates terror.”
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