{"id":6520,"date":"2016-06-30T13:07:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T13:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2026-11-01T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:28:11","slug":"chogha-zanbil-ziggurat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/chogha-zanbil-ziggurat\/","title":{"rendered":"Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat: History and Visiting Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chogha Zanbil<\/strong>, also spelled Tchogha Zanbil, is an Elamite sacred city in Khuzestan<\/a>, southwest Iran. Its massive brick ziggurat is the centrepiece of a wider site of temples, enclosure walls, palaces and water structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King Untash-Napirisha<\/strong> founded the city, known as Dur Untash, during the Middle Elamite period. The ziggurat was dedicated to Inshushinak and Napirisha. UNESCO inscribed the site on the World Heritage List in 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Statue of Queen Napir-Asu, wife of Untash-Napirisha, found at Susa. The Louvre dates it to approximately 1345\u20131305 BCE. This is an object from Susa, not a find from Chogha Zanbil. Louvre Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A visit is about reading the surviving brickwork and the layout of a sacred city. The upper temple has disappeared, but the lower structure retains inscriptions, passages and details that help explain how the complex worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This guide covers what the ziggurat was, which parts of the site to look for and how to combine it with Susa<\/a> and Haft Tappeh<\/a>. The photographs include objects from several Elamite sites; their findspots are distinguished below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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