Question

1) What is
ziggurat. ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top also : a structure or object of similar form.

Answer 2

a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are the first attested in the late third millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the tower of Babel.