The Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil, a massive stepped pyramid, is thought. glass cylinders discovered at the UNESCO world heritage site of Chogha Zanbil, Iran. Chogha Zanbil was an important religious and cultural center in the Elamite civilization. There are 4 circular buildings in Chogha Zanbil that are thought to have been used for observating and understanding the beginning of seasons. Glass from the Late Bronze Age ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil, Iran. Ziggurats may have been the oldest of the pyramids listed above. These terraces likely led to a temple on top. In 1979, it was the first Iranian monument enlisted in UNESCO World Heritage list. It was built about 1250 BC during the Middle Elamite Period (c. Chogha-zanbil is the remaining part of Dur Untash city which is near the ancient city of Shush. The Chogha Zanbil ziggurat has unique features in terms of vision, location, and centrality. Some glass wires were found in place too which are kept in Iran National museum in Tehran. Ziggurats were a form of a terraced compound of stories or levels going higher and higher (similar to a step pyramid). The ancient temple of Chogha-zanbil originally called Ziggurat Dur Untash, approximately constructed by Elamites in 1250 B.C. it is one of the few existent ziggurats outside Mesopotamia. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution. Photo about Chogha Zanbil is an ancient Elamite complex in the Khuzestan province of Iran. License & Copyright Uploaded by James Carnehan, published on 03 August 2014. It was constructed in approximately 1250 BCE in a religious city originally called Dar Untash. Elamite Masterpiece ChoghaZanbil(located in Khuzestan province) is a 3300 years old five leveled ziggurat that was built by order of Untash-Napirisha one of the elamite kings to honor great god Inshushinak.The name choghazanbil comes from local people which means basket mound.The temple used to be 53 meters in height but it's only 25 meters high now because of the destruction made by Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in 640BC.Also it's the place where FIRST water purification system was built to purify muddy water! Imagine how civilized were these ancient iranians in 1250BC Elamite Ziggurat located in today's Khuzestan Province in Iran.
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