In the Persian Gulf, there's an island so small and nondescript it appears on no map. Perhaps island is too generous a term for what appears to most eyes as no more than a lifeless bunch of rocks barely rising above sea level.

In truth, this is one of the oldest architectural artefacts on Earth—it is the roof of a ziggurat. The ziggurat itself does not lie in the waters of the Gulf but in the land of the gods.