The ancient town was never really completed as Untash-Napirisha died before its completion. The historical site was built upon the order of King Untash-Napirisha. It has been shown that the city was founded sometime around 1250 BC by the Elamite king, Untash-Napirisha to perhaps function as a religious capital. Why the structure of Chogha Zanbil is unfinished? God ‘Inshushinak’ is worshipped at Chogha Zanbil who was one of the major idols of the Elamite civilization.Īlso Read: Unfold the Mystery Behind Ancient Nazca Lines in Peru- Mexico It is considered to be the best-preserved of its kind and the finest surviving testimony to the once-great Elamite civilization. This Iranian site becomes the first one which is added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1979. The complex consists of a magnificent ziggurat which is the most extended structure of its kind in Iran.
This is a demolished monument of the ancient Elamite city of Dur Untashi (Dur Untash), located near Susa in the Khuzestan region of southwestern Iran. In ancient period it is known as Dur Untash and considered as the most sacred complex of the Elamite Kingdom. The Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil is also known pronounced as ‘Tchogha Zanbil’ and ‘Choga Zanbil’. The Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil is constructed with bricks and staircases constructed in the West Asian culture. Ziggurat is a pyramidal temple with a centre of mud brick and an exterior covered with baked brick. The ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil was dug between 19 and considered to be the best-preserved ancient site in the world. Most of the important and huge monuments that they build during their era were temples. Elamite people gave enormous respect to the temple, religions and worshipping.
Brief of Elamite CivilizationĮlamite or Elam was an ancient Iranian civilization which was resided once in the southwest of present-day Iran, and it was extended to the region of Khuzestan and Ilam, which currently lies in southern Iraq. Here we will discover the Chogha Zanbil which is the Iranian first UNESCO World Heritage Site and know its history, other traits and the reason behind its popularity. It is one of the best-preserved monument in the world. One of these ziggurats is also located in Chogha Zanbil in the Khuzestan region of modern Iran. However, some of these structures have been found outside the area once occupied by this ancient civilization. Ziggurat is probably the most distinctive architectural feature of the Mesopotamian civilization.
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