- Artist's rendering of the Ziggurat of Ur. Alternative forms. ziggarat, zigurat, ziqqurat, ziqqurrat, zikkurat, zikurat. Etymology.
- Bilinen 32 ziggurat vardır. Bunlardan 4'ü İran'da, gerisi Irak'tadır. En son keşfedilen ziggurat İran'ın merkezi Tepe Sialk'ta bulunmuştur.
- Ziggurat. Ziggurat, antik Mezopotamya’da inşa edilen kademeli bir tapınaktır. Genellikle kerpiçten yapılır ve kare veya dikdörtgen tabanlıdır.
- Like an ancient Egyptian pyramid, an ancient Near Eastern ziggurat has four sides and rises up to the realm of the gods.
- After many years, the top section of the ziggurats sometimes caused the lower section to slowly give way as the bricks were not hard enough.
- According to Wilfrid Allinger-Csollich (p. 319), the high temple is not separate from the ziggurat, and the entire ziggurat should be understood as a raised temple.
- Dicle ve Fırat havzasının her önemli şehrinde bir Ziggurat tapınağı vardı. En önemli kalıntılar Akarkuf (Dur Kurigalzu) ve Birs Nimrud’dadır (Borsippa).
- 2023 In this spirit, Francis convened an interfaith prayer service on March 6 near the dramatic ocher ziggurat of Ur. — Victor Gaetan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar.
- The design of the ziggurat was most likely a precursor to that of the pyramids of Egypt, the earliest of which dates to circa 2600 BCE.