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A man down the ziggurat at Ur
A man walks down 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) - 3394x5147 pixels (11.3x17.2 in / 28.7x43.6 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