Joyika
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Sep 18, 2021 11:50 AM
Joyika
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navagon
I'm sure Nanna is pleased.
BobHubert
Na na na na
LordVulpix
Moon God! Moon God!
ThereAreCrocodiles
Mare a noise like my great aunt when I pull a surprise visit.
JoeT85
Look, my grandkids call my wife Nana and she doesn't need any more power.
Zahnradfee
Is that your wife? https://i.redd.it/vkmyu077i9b41.jpg
JoeT85
it's pretty close
Okebel
https://imgur.com/3KvxGk9
stinkbeaner
Iaimtomisbehave
Hello baby!
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AshWilliamsBaronChainsaw
Built by the king or for the king using slaves?
Lavos5181
Wheres Nerevar when you need him.
Dissipo
CROM!!!
SkullPlates
Jabba the Hut and Jabba's bones.
Californiajackson
And it's wheelchair accessible.
simmerdim
Bit steep but have an uptick for observation.
rhmeclipse
Someone trained heavy on archers and engineers. Tbf archers are just infantry that don’t like being stabbed back. It usually works?
Thankyoubekind
Awesome!
FreelanceSpermDonor
GenerationWhy
The before picture is what inspired the face of Jabba the Hutt.
bhazz
It could've been higher, but somehow they started speaking different languages.
TeflonTrout
Ur-Nammu I've come to bargain
xyxyxyxy31
tveye82
AlfredGaebeli
Oh yeah? Well my friend doesn't.
IAmNoobz
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this.
homoerection
Of what?
IAmNoobz
The "Dormammu, I've Come to Bargain" parody.
OneGuyWithSixGuns
Daggoth-Ur, you shouldn't have come here... to bargain.
oddbeme
Zuul thanks thee.
wazscience
That thing is massive
billyrayvirus
They literally named the moon god after the fruit that looks like the moon.
chichiFregiLover
is that the babel tower
Knudlzisnoodles
I was actually stationed really close to this place. It's gigantic. We took a tour once.
SaturnineCult
I've been wondering why are they not cleaning the highest part of that building. Or is it missing the roof and just full of sand?
banz111
Up the ziggurat lickety split!
benjaminwhitten360
This is in Iraq. There is a joint base right next to it called Tallil. I was stationed there in 2005, and they would soetimes let us go out
SebastianCrab
I got to go while on tour. Amazing experience.
benjaminwhitten360
Absolutely amazing! If it were ever safe I would love to go back in a tourist capacity. There is just so much history there!
benjaminwhitten360
And book tours. The tour guide was amazing, he had taught hi.self something like 12 different languages. There is also an excavated building
benjaminwhitten360
Next to this one that I was told is suspected to be a former residence of Abraham.
berlinson
Lincoln?
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Nice work - when was it restored?
idontknowyoufromadam
Under Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat_of_Ur
boblives
My Favourite quote from like anything is "My name is Saddam Hussein I am the president of Iraq and I wish to negotiate"
TheResolver
Ur-Nammu, my name is Saddam Hussein I am the president of Iraq and I have come to bargain...
fistermatic5000
What a nice guy
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Cool - guess he did do something good after all :-)
CelticCommando
Dictators tend to do stuff like that, mussolini ordered the restoration of a bunch of Roman stuff
TerriblePokemon
He completely ruined it as an archeological site. It was rebuilt how HE thought it should look, evidence be damned
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
Damn :-/
iLynux
He was actually highly interested in returning the Babylonian Empire to its ancient glory, which was good for preserving history.
ipewpewu
So he used slaves to restore it, eh?
iLynux
Yeah probably, idk
IWishIHadASoul
I always liked that guy
partaharakka
And he liked mustard too.
Nobody213
Username checks out
Giantmutantcrab
*Epic of Gilgamesh intensifies*
graehall
An epic which got ripped off by a bunch of different belief systems and reworded as their own.
MutteringMisanthrope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd7qeP3R5vw
mustbethedragon
Perfect timing! I'm teaching this unit now!
CobaltAzurean
This is where Indy finds the Ark.
DrPhillipMahmoufWifarts
The Well of Souls
greenchair
You call him Dr. Jones doll.
threefingerjack
Asps. Very dangerous. :looks around: You go first.
Emmar01
But Indy.... why does the floor move?
threefingerjack
Why is it always snakes.
SpellyBreathedWizard
Top one looks like Jaba the Huts slightly melted face.
punnypanther
For a second I thought it was Warehouse 13
TheAlviss
Now lets hope some ass holes don't desecrate it.
GuysJustWannaFish
That's not excavation, that's restoration
Sauroctonus
Some of it has definitely had accumulated ground removed.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
First one, then the other.
TheActualDonKnotts
I find places like this so much more interesting than the great pyramids of Egypt. Like if I were to visit Egypt, I would be more 1/2
TheActualDonKnotts
interested in visiting Meidum than the great pyramids. They just seem so much more mysterious and mystical to me. 2/2
Carl99
It's the age of them that gets them their rep. They where older to Jesus than Jesus is to us.
Carl99
And the first Pharaoh's where older to the builders of the Pyramids than that.
sheepandcowdung
I find it incredible stuff like this gets buried in the first place.
gonergoner22
Empires fall.
RobJenkins
If there's no one to dust shit then shit gets dusty
ThomasThundersword
same. the sheer concept of things this big, or whole cities, getting buried is just staggering. and gives a ton of perspective
jackinpants11
It always was my mind as people build massive structures like this but then there's nothing inside
ProudAussie
Climate change and Mother Nature reclaims everything
Nader393
Let me tell you about Area 51, who's really responsible for 9/11, and Jeffrey Epstein.
dontfloatmygoat
Go on, then…
DaierMune
After several thousand years, we'll see how good you look
HappinessIsaColdPint
duffman3335
You've never seen my kitchen floor, then.
SleeperXib
Yeah, at some point, it was just empty and nobody thought to move in or set up an indoor market
BrdCdn
Not much of any indoor space in this thing and a hell of a large staircase. It's not practical for anything really. It was a temple.
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SleeperXib
Damn, now I need a gif of Pirelli saying, "I bow to a skill far greater than my own." +1
GaugeDanger
Top tier comment right there
Sonicschilidogs
Back then we had 4 holidays, and Spirit Solstice and Equinox Warehouse supplied all you needed!
razorgirl1066
You should read about Göbekli Tepe.
Exoch
Cool doot
mikeatc
May be the worlds first temple. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665/
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
Awesome piece
phalanxausage
Excellent article, thank you for posting it.
redhawk732
Fascinating history thanks!!
megodk
Why? Place gets abandoned->nobody keeping it clean->nature taking over->soil buildup. It's fairly straight forward, especially in deserts
MAN9000
$ and power build those things and money and power fade with the people who had them.
CubwardOHulihan
That's pretty deep.
howdy9157
Fuck you and your common sense.
GigiDundas
Fuck him yourself coward
CriticalCritic
In fact, it can happen even in the absence of every single one of those conditions. Ref: office desk.
CrimeBrulee
Probably because humans struggle to think in causal terms over timeframes beyond a few years, let alone dozens or hundreds.
TheAziz
A sidewalk can disappear under a layer of moss after several decades if not maintained. Nature is quick.
CrimeBrulee
Studies show most people struggle to accurately plan/conceptualize more than 3 years (at most) into the future. Decades is long.
CrimeBrulee
I'm not disagreeing that nature is "quick" on the timescale of History, just referentially for human lifespans.
stankginchfurbuger
Haven't people ever seen a time-lapse or a montage? I feel like it's not so hard to think in long time frames
iSoulKiller
Okay what's the time frame for dirt climbing walls and covering the top of that? It's odd how something that big get buried by accident
stankginchfurbuger
Feet per decade probs
pr3viso
4000 years worth of sandstorms. In the forest they get eaten by trees