Uruk is a city in Iraq (modern Warka in Iraq) where the first writing emerged and city life began more than five thousand years ago and. In Uruk, the most significant monument was the Ziggurat on which the White Temple was built. The Ziggurat was dedicated to the moon god Nanna, the patron deity of the city. It is the base on which the White Temple, that is a rectangle and oriented at cardinal points, is set on in order to get the temple closer to the heavens and to give access from the ground to it via steps. Mesopotamians believed it functioned as a representation of the homes of the gods, which connected heaven and earth. A shrine is placed on the summit of the ziggurat for the god because the citizens believed that the monument was a place
