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(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. 11:1–9).
‘Cartons of bottled water for rescue workers rose in charitable ziggurats outside police stations and schools.’
‘Opposite the ziggurat of technology was a single unmade cot.’
‘This piece evokes ancient architecture, in particular the ziggurat of the Assyrians.’
‘West Sacramento has a giant ziggurat on the river.’
‘I've seen the wax ziggurats, the elevated boats and spare architecture.’
‘The ziggurat occupies the center, surrounded by a city wall.’
‘Stepped pyramids known as ziggurats survive from the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia.’
‘This view, modelled upon ancient ziggurats, is probably very similar to how it actually appeared.’
‘Just beyond the bridge is a little park, too rocky to develop, that rises in the middle to a rounded granite ziggurat.’
‘In the pre-dynastic period, it was Mesopotamia and its ziggurats that provided the model for the Egyptians.’
‘The Tower of Babel, the great ziggurat beside Babylon's temple of Marduk, dates to this era.’
‘In its heyday, the city was enclosed by a wall some 8km in circumference, enclosing at one corner a citadel that contained a ziggurat, temples, and palaces.’
‘Dispensing with his ‘prairie style’, he peppered the scheme with domes, spires and ziggurats.’
‘I'm doing an ambient-metal installation in a Greek art gallery and writing about ziggurats.’
‘The nearby floating stairs are cast concrete bolstered by steel ziggurats tied into floor joists.’
‘Tall yellow candles towered like ziggurats over a city of dishes stacked with onion pies, potato dumplings, mettwurst and weisswurst.’
‘He guided Tennyson and Clara to a stepped display that looked rather like Tennysons' model of a ziggurat from History class.’
‘Shellfire damaged the brickwork of the ziggurat at Ur, which was constructed in 2100 B.C.’
‘Kiln-fired bricks were invented by the Mesopotamians to create the complex towering ziggurats of the Sumerian and Babylonian empires.’
‘The Mesopotamians built massive temples or ziggurats which housed the priestly class, the human representatives of the gods.’