General contractor Huber, Hunt and Nichols was awarded an $18.5 million contract in 1968 to build a 1-million-square-foot, seven-floor building that would resemble an ancient Babylonian temple called ...
The Ziggurat of Tchoga-Zanbil In the desert of southwestern Iran stand the remains of a temple that was originally 165 feet high. Built by the Elamites of 3,000 years ago, it is the same kind of ...
The modern word ziggurat is derived from the ancient Akkadian word ziggarratu, which means “temple tower.” The word now ...