Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed

by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c.

3500-3000 BCE. It is considered the most
significant among the many cultural contributions
of the Sumerians and the greatest among those
of the Sumerian city of Uruk which advanced the
writing of cuneiform c. 3200 BCE.
ziggurat
zirat/
noun
1.(in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes
surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd
millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of
Babel (Gen. 11:19).
Iconoclasm refers to the destruction of images or hostility toward visual
representations in general. More specifically, the word is used for the
Iconoclastic Controversy that shook the Byzantine Empire for more than 100
years.

Open hostility toward religious representations began in 726 when Emperor

Leo III publicly took a position against icons;
Pope Gregory II (Latin: Gregorius II; 669 11 February 731)
was Pope from 19 May 715 to his death in 731.[1] His defiance of
the Byzantine emperor Leo III the Isaurian as a result of
the iconoclastic controversy in the Eastern Empire prepared the
way for a long series of revolts, schisms and civil wars that
eventually led to the establishment of the temporal power of the
popes.