ziggurat

• “SHUSTER: The ziggurat is the nearby remains of an ancient pyramid from the Samarian city of Ur, dating back more than 4,000 years.”

  NPR: Troops Leave Iraq, But Where Will Their Stuff Go?

• “This so called ziggurat is just decadent housing for all the children and wives of the shieks.”

  ZIGGURAT: Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid will House 1 Million | Inhabitat

• “A ziggurat was a tall, stepped temple-tower believed to connect heaven and earth - hence the angels ascending and descending the steps.”

  Jacob: Chosen By God

• “The life of a slave was not an easy thing, so we tried to convey that in the scaffolding around the ziggurat, which is just put together with twine.”

  The (Dangerously Close to) Archaeology of

• “He poked at the humid ziggurat with the machete he'd been using to cut path.”

  The Huffington Post: Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing

• “That moment found Op de Beeck's camera alighting on a ziggurat-like palace that looked so grand, yet flimsy, that you were sure it was made of cardboard or paper.”

  The Washington Post: At the Hirshhorn: Have your Palace and Eat It, Too

• “The achievement is all the more remarkable given that Bruneau's intimate, visually spare production includes a stage-wide mirror, positioned just behind the ziggurat of black risers that is the other major set element.”

  The Washington Post: Theater review: Taffety Punk's all-female 'Julius Caesar'

• “Now the contents of Pro Tools are packed into a ziggurat of boxes threatening to engulf his small Brooklyn studio.”

  The Guardian: Cory Arcangel: 'I'm trying to get to the idea of design's idea of the future'

• “Quite the contrary, we still have our great building projects, our pyramid - and ziggurat-equivalents.”

  The Huffington Post: Tom Engelhardt: A World Made by War: How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down?

• “On the eastern side of the city was a second wall, surrounding the royal palace, and another protecting the central ziggurat, a steep pyramid containing the temple to Bel-Marduk, chief god of Babylon.”

  Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

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