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A man walks past the ziggurat at Ur
The ziggurat at Ur, supoosedly the city of the prophet Abraham's birth. Ur was a principal city of ancient Mesopotamia..The Ziggurat was dedicated to the moon and was built approximately in the 21st century BC by king Ur-Namma. In Sumerian times it was called Etemennigur.
Author: Stuart Freedman
©Stuart Freedman
Photo size: 17.5 Mpixels (50 MB uncompressed) - 5163x3386 pixels (17.2x11.3 in / 43.7x28.7 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: Abraham, ancient, antiquity, Arab, archeology, biblical, Iraq, Middle East, monument, Ur, ziggurat
Published in: Iraq - The Desert and the King