Explore the following website for information about Sumer (remember that means Mesopotamia and includes the city of Ur) and its religious art/architecture (including its ziggurats and the Standard of Ur):
- Crystal Links
- British Museum (Mesopotamia The British Museum) and click on Sumer. Look at the information on the Royal Tombs at Ur and the ziggurats
- Oriental Institute: Apadana of Persepolis Slideshow
- Letter from Iraq: A U.S. Soldier Reflects
The Cyrus Cylinder, after 539 B.C.E., fired clay, 21.9 cm long (video from the British Museum)
British Museum curator Irving Finkel overviews various depictions of the Tower of Babel through the ages.
