Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: ziggurat

The islands in the mediterranean sea still hold many unsolved prehistoric enigmas. Monte d'Accoddi near Sassari is one of them. The small hill was used as a base for an antiaircraft gun in WWII. At that time it came clear, that this was not just a hill in the meadow. Excavations done in the 1950s found the ruins of a ziggurat. A terraced step pyramid, known from Mesopotamia, but not from mediterranean islands. The oldest parts of the ziggurat are dated to around 4.000 BC. The structure had a base of 36m by 27m and probably reached a height of 5.5 m. A ramp, flanked by menhires, lead up to a kind of house (temple?) on the highest platform. It has been partially reconstructed during the 1980s.

The islands in the mediterranean sea still hold many unsolved prehistoric enigmas. Monte d'Accoddi near Sassari is one of them. The small hill was used as a base for an antiaircraft gun in WWII. At that time it came clear, that this was not just a hill in the meadow. Excavations done in the 1950s found the ruins of a ziggurat. A terraced step pyramid, known from Mesopotamia, but not from mediterranean islands. The oldest parts of the ziggurat are dated to around 4.000 BC. The structure had a base of 36m by 27m and probably reached a height of 5.5 m. A ramp, flanked by menhires, lead up to a kind of house (temple?) on the highest platform. It has been partially reconstructed during the 1980s.

The islands in the mediterranean sea still hold many unsolved prehistoric enigmas. Monte d'Accoddi near Sassari is one of them. The small hill was used as a base for an antiaircraft gun in WWII. At that time it came clear, that this was not just a hill in the meadow. Excavations done in the 1950s found the ruins of a ziggurat. A terraced step pyramid, known from Mesopotamia, but not from mediterranean islands. The oldest parts of the ziggurat are dated to around 4.000 BC. The structure had a base of 36m by 27m and probably reached a height of 5.5 m. A ramp, flanked by menhires, lead up to a kind of house (temple?) on the highest platform. It has been partially reconstructed during the 1980s.