The ancients of Mesopotamia in city-states of the Middle East built ziggurats to worship their gods. These people were mostly Sumerians, Assyrians, Elamites, and Babylonians. These massive structures they built were pyramidally-shaped with four sides. They consisted of a series of stories successively lesser in width, often seven in all, that reached an apex plateau. A ramp usually ascended all four sides to reach a top, square-shaped plateau. Herodotus–the so-called “father of history” who lived in the fifth century BCE–said... Read more














