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Ziggurat building in the middle of the desert
Photo by Sam Moghadam Khamseh, via Unsplash
Ziggurat

An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower built with bricks. It has different sized rectangular units that help lead to the shrine for a god at the top.

black and white zigzag patterned walkway with two people walking on it
Photo by Jack Finnigan, via Unsplash
ZigZag

A pattern that resembles inverted V’s