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3rd millennium BCE

The Mountain Humans Built

Mesopotamian Ziggurats

The stepped Great Ziggurat of Ur with its monumental staircase.
The Great Ziggurat of Ur, Iraq.Amjedha95 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source record

The Moment

The temple became a monumental artificial mountain.

The Rethink

Architecture could establish a visible relationship between earthly communities and the divine.