1-7: First look at the ziggurat in Nippur and northern side of the city 8-9: Wall surrounding the ziggurat and the temple area 10: Eastern part of the temple yard 11: Walls 12: Kind of storage prepared in later times, when the ziggurats were used as defensive structures and lost their sacred character. Views from the top of the ziggurat 13-14: Southern part of the temple yard 15-16: Large temple of goddess Inanna 17: Another part of the walls surrounding the temple 18-19: The inside of the brick structure at the top of the ziggurat 20-21: Southern part of the temple yard and further the elevation called the hill of the thousand plates, where the plates were lying in the ground; the Kline texts writing from that place told a large part of the history of the Sumer 22-25: Looking from the top of the ziggurat 26-30: Place of the last excavations made by American archeologists until 2004 31-36: Southern part of the temple yard 37-39: Walls of the ziggurat 40: Gate in the southern wall 41-45: Southern part of the temple yard