About Ziggurat Choqa Zanbil in Khuzestan province

Ziggurat Choqa Zanbil was built on the order of Untash Gal the Elamite king in 1250 BC, for the worship of Inshoshinak god. Ziggurat has been built 23 kilometers souteast of Susa, on the banks of Dez river. The architecture of Choqa zanbil manifests the miraculous progress in architectural techniques specially mathematical measurements and combination of materials during that era.
The bottom of the building of the temple comes in many stories made of mud covered with clay bricks. The luxurious entrances and stairways find access to the archaeological diggings and discoveries round the temple, a number of clay inscriptions in Elamite as well as sculptures of animals and men have been unearthed. Untash Gal praises Inshoshinak as follows;
(I, Untash Gal, son of Hubanomna, the king of Anzan (Khuzistan) and Susa, built a large worship hall to show my gratefulness for my long life, much wealth, many children, to Inshoshinak, the god of the sacred place. I present this temple to him and rasie it to the sky, I hope my gift, and god of Inshoshinak will accept my attempt.)

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