The Ziggurat and the pyramids There are numerous similarities and contrasts between Ancient Egyptian Pyramids and Mesopotamian ziggurats. The pyramid that will be utilized as a part of this paper is the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Ziggurat used will be the Great Ziggurat of Ur. They both were held in high respects for their kin societies and religious convictions. Ziggurats are ventured structures of a gigantic size that prompt a stage on top where otherworldly/religious customs occurred. One similarity is how big they are in their physical properties. One of the main reasons to build these structures was to show off growing wealth, prestige, and loyalty to the gods they worshipped. Another similarity is they both share symbolic meaning for constructing the buildings. “The primary reason Egyptians made their pyramids was to glorify their rulers, and their secondary reason was to establish a connection between the souls of the dead and their gods” (Copeland). Mesopotamian people cared about their people connecting with the gods, the symbolic meaning for building the ziggurats was to create a passageway from earth to heaven “Pyramids were thought to be the final resting places of the pharaoh, but more recent archaeological find has uncovered that they were built with narrow shafts extending from the inside to the outer surface for the to lift the pharaoh’s soul into the heavens” (Julita). The Great Pyramid of Giza is found south of present-day Cairo, it was worked for King Khufu. The Great Pyramids is a more refined form of the ziggurat. Keeping up the bigger base and littler best like a ziggurat, the pyramid offers a further developed interpretation of design and shape. The development of such a huge scale square pyramid required exceptional numerical arranging and human work, with singular blocks weighing 2.5 tons. The pyramids were made of significantly sturdier materials than the ziggurats, for example, rock, limestone, and alabaster. Ziggurat of Ur was built in 2100 BC by king Ur-Nammu in honor of the sun god. It is a rectangle with 3 staircases in the front which come together at the top at a gate. “The front staircase is believed to have only been used by the higher priest to climb to the higher stages of the ziggurat” (Lesik). The ziggurats were produced using mud-blocks and were raised to keep them from flooding. When looking at the two structures straight on, the pyramids look loves little squares making up a triangle. The ziggurats resemble a rectangle with an arrangement of stairs. The ziggurats likewise have places of worship to finish everything while the pyramids need them. The means are additionally separated and insignificant, permitting few access indicates that required be monitored. Ziggurats are one of a kind since they have steps, slopes or patios as to pyramids have a long extend of staircases and smoother sides. Ziggurats are multi-storied and often share a typical element of having seven levels or layers to speak to the seven planets of the sky. There are likewise no chambers inside these structures and are molded like a rectangle or square. Pyramids have chambers inside and have triangular external surfaces that meet at one point. Most pyramids have five faces including its base; there are four-face pyramids that have triangular or non-quadrilateral bases. These are other physical differences between a ziggurat and a pyramid. The pyramids entrance differed from the ziggurats; the entrances were located on the bottom of the pyramid and lead down. The ziggurats lead you up towards the heavens, not down. The pyramids did not have a temple. Instead, they have tombs. The purpose of these tombs was not to worship the gods but to protect the dead and give them access to the underworld. Both the ziggurats of the Ancient Near East and the pyramids of Egypt are astounding accomplishments of human development. For their separate circumstances, they typified their human advancement’s advances in design and science and their states of mind on the significance of feeling. Stripped of their religious/stylized purposes, it is anything but difficult to consider them to be a kind of benchmark of the circumstances, and after that to see the parallels and development starting with one then onto the next.