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Ziggurat's were an important feature of ancient Sumerian religion. They were impressive structures, shaped like a pyramid but with steps instead of smooth, straight sides. Ziggurats typically had a shrine at the highest point where religious services and sacrifices were performed.
The best preserved example can be found in the city of Ur around 1200 BCE.
its believed that the ziggarat was built to resemble the mountains of there northern homelands in which they once worshipped...
the pyramid had no shrine type deal at the top, and the pyramids had internal tunnels and chambers.
the different form a pyramid and a ziggurat is that the pyramid is trangle form higher as well and is very hard to build.and the ziggurat is more like a billeding or like little town where poeple live in....
A ziggurats main purpose was beleived to be housing for the gods. Where as a pyramid was also a housing for a 'god', yet it was the home for their dead corpse. Another large difference between the two that hasnt been stated is that the ziggurats were made of sun dried mud bricks, unlike the the pyramids, using very large, and heavy stone.
Aesthetically, ziggurats were build more as layered floors of a rising architecture, rigidly like a layered wedding cake, relatively; where the ziggurat had a shrine at the top, as to the bride & groom arch of the cake .
Pyramids were designed with different goal in mind, with the four sided pyramid look in mind; having it to be more of a shell, to protect the late pharaoh resting within.
- Greg Allen
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