At the center of the city rose the giant ziggurat called Etemenanki, " House of the Frontier Between Heaven and Earth ," which lay next to the Temple of Marduk. He also made The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, for his wife from the mountains so that she would feel at home.

The main temple to Enki is called E-abzu, meaning " abzu temple " ( also E-en-gur-a, meaning " house of the subterranean waters ""), a ziggurat temple surrounded by Euphratean marshlands near the ancient Persian Gulf coastline at Eridu.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

The temple is described in the article as adapting " the robust typology of Mayan temples, with durasteel cladding specified for the external stone walls for improved defensive strength " and said to be a ziggurat that " is built above a Force-nexus and has ample room for training facilities, accommodation and the Jedi Archive.

The ziggurat is the most distinctive form, and cities often had large gateways, of which the Ishtar Gate from Neo-Babylonian Babylon, decorated with beasts in polychrome brick, is the most famous, now largely in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

Each ziggurat was part of a temple complex which included other buildings.

The precursors of the ziggurat were raised platforms that date from the Ubaid period during the fourth millennium BC.

Built in receding tiers upon a rectangular, oval, or square platform, the ziggurat was a pyramidal structure with a flat top.

Sun-baked bricks made up the core of the ziggurat with facings of fired bricks on the outside.

Access to the shrine would have been by a series of ramps on one side of the ziggurat or by a spiral ramp from base to summit.

Only priests were permitted on the ziggurat or in the rooms at its base, and it was their responsibility to care for the gods and attend to their needs.

Mesoamerican pyramids were usually stepped, with temples on top, more similar to the Mesopotamian ziggurat than the Egyptian pyramid.

The Tower of Babel has often been associated with known structures, notably the Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk by Nabopolassar ( c. 610 BC ).

During his rule, temples, including the ziggurat, were built, and agriculture was improved through irrigation.

The last Babylonian king, Nabonidus ( who was Assyrian born, and not a Chaldean ), improved the ziggurat.

Taylor found clay cylinders in the four corners of the top stage of the ziggurat which bore an inscription of Nabonidus ( Nabuna ` id ), the last king of Babylon ( 539 BC ), closing with a prayer for his son Belshar-uzur ( Bel-ŝarra-Uzur ), the Belshazzar of the Book of Daniel.

Evidence was found of prior restorations of the ziggurat by Ishme-Dagan of Isin and Shu-Sin of Ur, and by Kurigalzu, a Kassite king of Babylon in the 14th century BCE.

* 3500 BC — 2340 BC ; Sumer: wheeled carts, potter's wheel, White Temple ziggurat, bronze tools and weapons.

* Repetitive recalculation of should be reduced by means such as ziggurat algorithm for faster generation.

The ziggurat algorithm is a fast method for generating exponential variates.

Etemenanki ( Sumerian " temple of the foundation of heaven and earth ") was the name of a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in the city of Babylon of the 6th century BCE Neo-Babylonian dynasty.

It took 88 years to rebuild the city ; its central feature was the temple of Marduk ( Esagila ), with which the Etemenanki ziggurat was associated.

The ziggurat was rebuilt by Nebuchadnezzar II.

The seven stories of the ziggurat reached a height of 91 meters, according to a tablet from Uruk ( see below ), and contained a temple shrine at the top.

The height of the first stage was about 11 m while the second stage rose some 5. 7 m. Usually, a third stage is reconstructed by the excavator of the ziggurat ( Leonard Woolley ), and crowned by a temple.

After the middle of the 12th century BC follows another long period of comparative neglect, but with the conquest of Babylonia by the Assyrian king Sargon II, at the close of the 8th century BC, we meet again with building inscriptions, and under Ashurbanipal, about the middle of the 7th century BC, we find Ekur restored with a splendour greater than ever before, the ziggurat of that period being 58 by 39 m. After the fall of the Neo Assyrian Empire Ekur appears to have gradually fallen into decay, until finally, in the Seleucid period, the ancient temple was turned into a fortress.

The three excavated areas are the mound of Aqar Quf ( including the ziggurat and large temple ), a public building ( approximately 100 m to the west ), and Tell al-Abyad where a large palace was partially uncovered ( about 1 km to the south-west ).

In Southern Iraq each city had a patron god, worshipped in a massive central temple called a ziggurat, and was ruled by a priest-king ( ishakku ).

The top of the ziggurat was flat, unlike many pyramids.

Built in receding tiers upon a rectangular, oval, or square platform, the ziggurat was a pyramidal structure.

Access to the shrine was provided by a series of ramps on one side of the ziggurat or by a spiral ramp from base to summit.

Ur-Nammu's ziggurat at Ur was designed as a three-stage construction, but today only two of these survive.

Each ziggurat was part of a temple complex which included other buildings.

Built in receding tiers upon a rectangular, oval, or square platform, the ziggurat was a pyramidal structure with a flat top.

Only priests were permitted on the ziggurat or in the rooms at its base, and it was their responsibility to care for the gods and attend to their needs.

In fact, the ziggurat at Babylon was known as Etemenankia or " House of the Platform between Heaven and Earth ".

According to Herodotus, at the top of each ziggurat was a shrine, although none of these shrines has survived.

Another practical function of the ziggurat was for security.

Since the shrine was accessible only by way of three stairways, a small number of guards could prevent non-priests from spying on the rituals at the shrine on top of the ziggurat, such as cooking of sacrificial food and burning of carcasses of sacrificial animals.

Near the northwestern edge, towards the western corner, he built a ziggurat of three stages of dry brick, faced with kiln-fired bricks laid in bitumen.

The excavations included the ziggurat, three temples and part of the palace of Dur Kurigalzu II.

The player must operate three levers in the ziggurat to reach the center of the labyrinth and take, among other items, the talisman to destroy its cornerstone.