ziggurat in English

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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).
Stepped pyramids known as ziggurats survive from the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia.
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1. 1 Only the king and priests could enter a ziggurat.

2. 10 We think he went off north to the Wailing Ziggurat.

3. 5 Go to the Wailing Ziggurat, see if he's doing okay.

4. The thing on the right is a snake form, a ziggurat.

5. Indeed, its landscape was dominated by a towering ziggurat honoring the moon-god Nanna.

6. ABRAM looked up, his gaze drawn to the ziggurat that loomed over his home city of Ur.

7. 7 The seventh layer of Mount Celestia can be reached only by climbing the ziggurat.

8. 6 Our situation is nearly hopeless. We were ordered to take the Wailing Ziggurat with a handful of men.

9. 8 The peak of the great mountain is found here , topped by a giant ziggurat that ascends even higher.

10. 4 The bricks of the Ziggurat are stamped with the name of Ur Nammu, the Sumerian king who built it.

11. 9 In Wright's early plans for the Guggenheim, the right half was a ziggurat; he inverted it to get the present shape.

12. These include structures like the religious ziggurat platforms of Mesopotamia and pictographic signs bearing a strong resemblance to early Mesopotamian forms.

13. 3 Call me crazy,(www.Sentencedict.com) but storming a Scourge ziggurat outside a plagued Nerubian city with a dozen men ain't my idea of fun.

14. An ancient ziggurat has been uncovered there, along with many mounds and coffins that seem to indicate that Erech was once a burial ground of the Assyrian kings.

15. When the 1991 Gulf War ended, Hussein wanted to build a modern palace called Saddam Hill over some of the old ruins, in the pyramidal style of a ziggurat.

16. 11 Meanwhile, the owner, George Koril, kept busy constructing a fresh ziggurat of shawarma, layering slabs of thinly sliced raw beef onto a vertical spit capped by a ripe tomato.

17. Baroness Anastari was once a beautiful high elf Baroness who was brutally murdered by the Scourge and is now under the control of the Lich King.She now guards a ziggurat in Stratholme.

18. 12 The world's oldest arch survives here, together with some of the oldest known writing:many of the bricks of the Ziggurat are stamped with the name of Ur Nammu, the Sumerian king who built it.

19. This unique arcadian ziggurat is thus removed from the category of a mere visual or functional object and achieves a new level of green architecture connecting to and stimulating all of the senses.

20. 2 This unique arcadian ziggurat is thus removed from the category of a mere visual or functional object and achieves a new level of green architecture connecting to and stimulating all of the senses.