High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sumerians were people who lived in Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq) from the mid 6th millennium BC to the early 2nd millennium BC. Among their architectural accomplishments are the invention of urban planning, the courtyard house, and ziggurat step pyramids. The story of Sumerian architecture is overwhelmingly one of clay masonry and of increasingly complex forms of stacked bricks. No architectural profession existed in Sumer; however, scribes drafted and managed construction for the government, nobility, or royalty. The Sumerians were aware of 'the craft of building' as a divine gift taught to men by the gods as listed in me 28. Sumerian Architecture is the foundation of later Hebrew, Phoenician, Anatolian, Hittite, Hurrian, Ugaritic, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Islamic, and to a certain extent Grecoroman and therefore Western Architectures.

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