Word: ziggurat
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Babylon, excavations have proceeded as never before. British and University of Pennsylvania diggers continued turning up the wonders of Ur of the Chaldees. Their finding of the great ziggurat or tower, the temple of the moon god and the temple of Nin-Gal, wife of the moon god, was reported in TIME, March...
...Chaldees, the joint British Museum-University of Pennsylvania expedition continued to exhume the architectural works of Nebuchadnezzar, his ancestors and his grandson. The major find was a limestone slab, 5 by 15 ft., decorated with a portrait and biographic scenes of King Ur-Engur, builder of the huge ziggurat of Ur or Moon God's tower. The date of the slab was put at 2300 B. C., its historic importance being equaled only by its value as a specimen of Sumerian...
...Babylonia, at Ur of the Chaldees, the expedition of the British Museum and of the University of Pennsylvania began to delve into the ruins surrounding the great ziggurat or tower. The first works uncovered date from about 600 B. C.; in the courtyard of a temple of the Moon God was found a building believed to have been used as a sort of convent schoolroom and museum by the priestesses. Another building, a temple to Nin-Gal, wife of the Moon God, has also been uncovered in a corner of the compound. Some of the objects found dated from...