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              <text>Image 1: Geena_Truman: (https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220822-the-ziggurat-of-ur-iraqs-answer-to-the-pyramids)</text>
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              <text>Image 3: Leonard Woolley, photo with excavation workers, c. 1923–24, featuring the ziggurat of Ur, c. 2100 B.C.E., Tell el-Mukayyar, Iraq (photo: Penn Museum, Philadelphia): (https://smarthistory.org/ziggurat-of-ur/)</text>
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