The largest ziggurat outside Mesopotamia and the best preserved of any stepped pyramid of its kind, built around 1250 BC by the Elamite king Untash-Napirisha for the god Inshushinak, 30 km southeast of Susa. It was 105.2 metres on each side and about 53 metres tall in five levels. It now stands 24.75, so you are looking at less than half of it, and the missing half is why the mud brick core is exposed and legible. Building went on around it after the king died, commercial and residential quarters in several phases, until the whole site was destroyed around 645 BC. It was the first place in Iran ever put on the World Heritage list, in 1979. Khuzestan Province.
Khuzestan Province, Iran
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