ziggurats in a sentence

1. Some ziggurats are believed to have been huge.

2. Eridu is best known for its temples, called ziggurats.

3. It is also one of the only ziggurats built outside of Mesopotamia.

4. Ziggurats and pyramids greatly differ in terms of purpose or function.

5. Ziggurats are chamber less while pyramids usually have internal chambers.

6. The Sumerians gave us ziggurats, temples, and lots of sculptures of gods.

7. It is one of the few extant ziggurats outside Mesopotamia (the other is Sialk).

8. More advanced civilizations built pyramids, ziggurats or other more difficult structures.

9. Walls engulfed all man-made structures, swallowing up ziggurats and cities with equal appetite.

10. Only the huge monuments such as the Sphinx, the pyramids, the Ziggurats, etc survived the flood.

11. In this regard, Khmer pyramids or temple mountains functionally resemble Mesopotamian Ziggurats.

12. The great ziggurats, tombs, and statues of Mesopotamia were explicitly religious in their nature.

13. In this regard, it is not a surprise that only the priests were allowed to get inside the ziggurats.

14. Architecture from our cultural heritage like pyramids, ziggurats or minarets demonstrates this idea.

15. Perhaps you do not know that the Chaldeans up on their ziggurats wrote in space when the dates approached.

16. Ziggurats were built in Ancient Mesopotamia while pyramids were built in Ancient Egypt and Southern America.

17. It symbolises the South American Ziggurats having the same look, and it is located at a pool in which sharks gather.

18. This element is inspired from historic mehrabs and ziggurats, which are symbols of promotion and approaching closer to the sun.

19. In Mesopotamia, large buildings named ziggurats served as temples where worshippers could make sacrifices and pray (Connan, 1999).

20. Do not forget that many megalithic monuments are subsequent to the construction of Mesopotamian ziggurats or the great Egyptian pyramids.