This page groups sacred sites by whether UNESCO has formally recognized them. Wikipedia notes elsewhere that cultural traditions can be "recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity," the same kind of international listing that applies to World Heritage sites. Browsing by UNESCO status lets a visitor see which sacred sites carry that international recognition and which do not.
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What Defines This GroupingThe temples and ziggurats of the world's earliest cities. The temple was a household: the god lived in the sanctuary, was washed, fed and clothed daily, and owned land, herds and labour. The ziggurat was the platform of that household, not a building the public entered. 2 Peoples and Traditions CoveredSumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian cities across three thousand years, with different languages, different capitals and pantheons that were repeatedly rearranged around whichever city held power. "Mesopotamian religion" is a convenience for a long sequence of related but distinct systems. 3 Learn More
Sacred Sites of Mesopotamia
This group gathers the sacred sites of ancient Mesopotamia, the temples and towering ziggurats of Sumer, Babylon and Assyria, raised to the gods of the world's earliest cities. The ziggurat, a stepped temple-tower, is among the most characteristic monuments of the ancient Near East.
The browser will find the temple-cities and sacred structures of the Mesopotamian civilisations. The entries describe each site's deity and history as a monument of a vanished religion.
UNESCO World Heritage Status
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses
Nicole Brisch (ed.), Oracc / Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, University of Pennsylvania, 2011View the Source 3. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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