- Ancient Babylonia: The Ziggurats
Huge stepped structures that were one of the most important aspects of Babylonian religion and tradition.
www.bible-history.com/babylonia/BabyloniaThe_Ziggurat.htm
- Ancient Sumeria: Temples and Ziggurats
Brief article, with pictures, about the ancient monuments crowned with temples or shrines.
www.jameswbell.com/a011templesandziggurats.html
- Tower of Babel (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Ziggurats/Tower_of_Babel
- Wikipedia: Ziggurat
Temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat
- Ziggurat
Form of temple common to the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.
www.crystalinks.com/ziggurat.html
- Ziggurats
Online exhibit dedicated to the stepped towers. From The British Museum.
www.mesopotamia.co.uk/ziggurats
- Ziggurats of Ancient Mesopotamia
Gallery including artist renderings of the ancient brick towers and photographs of their actual ruins.
joseph_berrigan.tripod.com/id18.html
- Ziggurats: Temple Platforms of Ancient Mesopotamia
Artificial stepped temple platforms constructed on the flat flood plains.
www.meridianmagazine.com/ideas/040112zuggurats.html
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