Choqazanbil the ancient temple in Iran (1250/B.CE)
chogha zanbil the temple of God (1250 BC) in the southwestern of Iran 
in the southwestern of Iran-today Khouzestan(Cusistan) close to Susa you can see a wounderful ancient building.it is choghazanbil, an Elamite ancient Ziggurat (temple of god) founded by Elam king Untashgal in more then 1250 BCE .it is one of the Oldest temples in UNESCO world heritage list.
this temple has wonderer specialities.like watter channel and cleaning water or Solar clock and water reticulation with pipework and also filtering.they refine the water to carry up to the upper storey which had more than 50 meter height.it is oldest refinery system in the world.
it had 52 meter in height 5 storeys at first but today remain just 26 meters.this beautiful temple was found in the first half of last century.the french man Roman Grischman saw a single hill in a desert.he started to discovering arround that hill and this unusual building was revulged. on that time they found many untique things and brought them for knowledge studies.and it was revealed that this temple is an Ancient Elamite temple of god that Untash Napirisha commanded to build it.in the walls it has many scripts and writing bricks on the Elamite
alphabet(Mikhi=cuneiform).and also some of that bricks were painted on a fresh color.
this refinery system is the oldest in the world 
in addition to the ziggurat ,choghazanbil includes eleven lesser temples too.also royal palace and walls guarding the temple. and also it has a underground cemetery.and the Elamite kings are burried there.it has a dredful entery.
this building destroyed by ashurbanipal - the Assyrian Empire - when he attackted to elam about 7th BC.this pretty and wounderful tower located near the king road from Elam to Persis (today Fars state of Iran) and many of great kings Like Cyrus and Alexander and also Darius when acrossed this road ,were suprised to see one of the unbelievable buidings on that time.
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