Ziggurat
DEFINITION
A terraced pyramid of successively receding stories, used as a temple by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians in Mesopotamia, such as the see thumbnail to rightone at Ur. The British Museum has a page about ziggurats.
A terraced pyramid of successively receding stories, used as a temple by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians in Mesopotamia, such as the see thumbnail to rightone at Ur. The British Museum has a page about ziggurats.