Definition of "ziggurats" []

• Plural form of ziggurat. (noun)

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• "The Babylonians built cities around temple complexes that featured terraced pyramids known as ziggurats."
• "But the people also built stepped mountains known as ziggurats, with a temple on top, and the Bible tells how they tried to build one higher and higher."
• "Architecture and civilisation went hand-in-brick from the very beginning, starting – to the best of our knowledge – with the cities and ziggurats towers of ancient Sumeria, now hidden from the world in the deserts of southern Iraq."