单词	ziggurat
释义	ziggurat /ˈzɪɡʊrat / noun (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.... The Mesopotamians built massive temples or ziggurats which housed the priestly class, the human representatives of the gods. The Tower of Babel, the great ziggurat beside Babylon's temple of Marduk, dates to this era. Origin From Akkadian ziqqurratu.
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