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Throughout most of our area of operations, you could see the Ziggurat. What exactly is the ziggurat was a topic of discussion as each interpreter gave me a different semi unsure answer. According to wikipedia: Ziggurats were massive monuments built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

Ziggurats were used for religious purposes during ancient BC. Pictured here is the one in our sector.

When time was available, my platoon decided to make a pit stop to check out the Ziggurat. After setting up a 360 perimeter, we sent groups of soldiers up armed with their cameras. This was the one and only time I actually felt like a tourist. It didn’t take long for kids to show up from the local village wondering what we were doing. It was pretty amazing to see something so old and yet still standing. One thing you won’t get to experience in the United States. Below are a couple more pics from our trip. Click here to see the entire set. There’s about 35 total.

The steps leading up to the Ziggurat.

Rather hard to frame that in the background, but turned out to be a great photo.

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