ziggurats

• These were tiny ziggurats or "hanging gardens" -- Mr. Ladysmith had made a portion of Babylonian culture vivid for his students. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 02 - August 1994
• I was imprisoned in rooms in a high tower of the Temples of the Moon, which looked down on the many courtyards, balconied gardens, ziggurats, and raised terraces where the priests regularly performed their exulted work. —  Asimov'sSF,June2008
• The ziggurats of Mesopotamia, the pyramids, the Forbidden City, the Louvre, and Monticello all convey their builders 'legacies, as did the many lavish palaces of Saddam Hussein. —  Amitava Kumar
• The ancient ziggurats were towers of receding stories with a temple at the top (better for the priests, apparently, to escape rising flood waters). —  Home
• Some had sides that looked like a set of stairs, and these were called step pyramids, or ziggurats.

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