Ziggurat

[Cami]

A [temple] of the ancient Sumerians and babylonain, made of terraces connected by ramps and [stairs], roughly in the shape of a [pyramid]

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[Tariq Zaki]

(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).

[Hina Muqadas]

a large rectangular structure with several levels of different sizes and steps leading up it, built in ancient times, especially in what is now Iraq, and usually forming part of a temple (= a religious building) :