#Ziggurat vs pyramid series#

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New tombs and treasures continue to be discovered - here is an article about several discoveries in 2017:Īs for booby traps, they are kind of a myth: most tombs had obstacles like stone slabs but no real booby traps. The ziggurat itself is actually the base on which the temple sits. They were a stepped tower with a temple located at the top. Ziggurats were meant to directly connect the community to their God. Where They Are: Mesopotamia - Todays Iraq and Western Iran. Builders: Ziggurats Were Built by Ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Elamites, Eblaites, and Babylonians. Each city-state in Mesopotamia had a specific God. Name: The Word Ziggurat Comes From The Assyrian Word 'Ziqquratu' Meaning 'Height or Pinnacle'. The country is also planning a Grand Egyptian Museum near Giza. The Ziggurats in Mesopotamia were built to honor the main god of the city.

One of the world's leading Egyptologists is actually Egyptian himself, and he used to head the country's department of antiquities. the fascinating thing about these ideas to me is they are not new, they've been around with people knowing what's up up all the way back to when it was actually happening, and we're just now stumbling onto it, but others have known about, been thinking about, and considering this stuff since it happened, in some cases maybe even before, yet here we are thousand of years latter just now coming across the idea ourselves for the first time.Īlthough many Egyptian antiquities were taken out of the country many years ago, today whatever is found in Egypt would likely stay there. Both pyramids and ziggurats were religious buildings of the Ancient Middle East that had an important religious function within their societies. It is just a continuation of a field of study thats called PalleoSETI, that was really kicked off by both Erich von Daniken & Zecharia Sitchin back in the 60's with their books Chariots of the gods, and the 12th planet respectively, and followed up latter by Drunvalo Melchizedek The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life. The word ziggurat is a modern-day pronunciation of the Zighurtu an Akkadian term that comes from the Babylonian. The construction of ziggurats was common from 4200 to 2500 years ago.

#Ziggurat vs pyramid series#

Well I don't know about believe it, but there are enough people interested in the idea that there is a series called Ancient Aliens which actually is in it's 6th season! so it's been around for a minute. The Ziggurat is a religious structure typical of major cities of ancient Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Syria), built as a pyramid-shaped temple.