ziggurats

The Babylonians built cities around temple complexes that featured terraced pyramids known as ziggurats.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

But the people also built stepped mountains known as ziggurats, with a temple on top, and the Bible tells how they tried to build one higher and higher.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

Non-generic-fantasy weirdness where you ride around on giant fleas in a volcanic wasteland dotted with ziggurats and mushroom-based mansions, a (hopefully) resentful tool of imperialism and living gods!

"Grow till tall. They all, in the end, will fall." aliceoddcabinet 2010

Photos of DGS stores well into the 1940s show the merchandise stacked up into ziggurats behind counters.

At peak, District Grocery Stores collective comprised 300 mom-and-pop shops John Kelly 2010

It also resulted in part from structural needs and, more, as the historical result of stripping away decoration from predecessors that tried to gussy up the modern large building with references to the more ancient grandeur of ziggurats and Gothic detail.

Matthew Yglesias » Aesthetics-Enabling Regulation 2009

Photos of DGS stores well into the 1940s show the merchandise stacked up into ziggurats behind counters.

At peak, District Grocery Stores collective comprised 300 mom-and-pop shops John Kelly 2010

Architecture and civilisation went hand-in-brick from the very beginning, starting – to the best of our knowledge – with the cities and ziggurats towers of ancient Sumeria, now hidden from the world in the deserts of southern Iraq.

A guide to British architecture 2011

Each of the ziggurats corners are at a compass point.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum 2009

The set, by the sculptor Antony Gormley, consists of movable cuboid frames which the performers continually reconfigure, the resultant ziggurats sometimes uniting the group, sometimes fracturing it.

Political Mother and Babel (words) 2010

They have a sense of style that the old delis never had, festooned as they were with sausages and hams like Christmas decorations, tottering ziggurats of boxes of biscuits, cheeses plonked higgledy-piggledy inside a primitive chill cabinet.

Old delicatessens and new delis 2010