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a staircase to heaven built by people who didn't trust gods to come down themselves
means A ziggurat is an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower built as a series of stacked, ever-smaller terraces with a shrine at the top.
from From Akkadian 'ziqqurratu,' meaning a temple-tower or pinnacle, which comes from the verb 'zaqaru,' to build high or raise up. The word traveled to us through scholarship rather than speech, dug up alongside the brick mounds of Sumer and Babylon — so when you say it, you're using the same root the builders used for the act of stacking heaven a little closer.
- no inside
- Solid mud-brick mound, no chambers or rooms
- oldest
- Predate Egyptian pyramids by centuries
- sky temple
- Shrine sat only at the very top
- meaning
- Sumerian root means to build high
- survivor
- Ur ziggurat partly stands after 4,000 years
great ziggurat of ur — sumerian temple built ~2100 bce in ancient mesopotamia (modern iraq), dedicated to the moon god nanna
ziggurat of chogha zanbil — elamite ziggurat in southwestern iran built ~1250 bce by king untash-napirisha, oldest surviving ziggurat
etemenanki — babylonian ziggurat dedicated to marduk in ancient baghdad, described in cuneiform texts as having 7 tiers