White Temple and its ziggurat
3,500-3,000 BCE
Uruk (modern day Warka, Iraq)
Sumerian
Statues of votive figures from the Square Temple of Eshnunna
2,700 BCE
Tell Asmar, Iraq
Sumerian
Standard of Ur
2,600-2,400 BCE
Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq
Sumerian
Code of Hammurabi
1,792-1,750 BCE
Babylon → Susa, Iran
Babylonian → Susian
Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II
720-705 BCE
Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq)
Neo-Assyrian
Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes
520-465 BCE
Persepolis, Iran
Persian