Ziggurat project ideas

Students build easy cut-and-paste ziggurat models from paper blocks. This resource is a great alternative to complex and messy sugar-cube and cereal-box models! | Ziggurat Model, Ziggurat Project Ideas, Ziggurat Craft for Kids, How to Build a Ziggurat#papercraftingideas #papercrafting101 #papercraftingtips #papercraftinghacks #papercraftingcommunity

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Ziggurats are temples

A ziggurat is the Mesopotamia version of a pyramid. A large building made of stones; ziggurats are temples rather than tombs. These monumental structures continued to be built as late as 300 B.C. and were built exclusively by kings.

Ziggurat using spray adhesive and dirt for final layer.

Spanish designer J.Ossorio shares with us his new paper model: this is the Ziggurat, an Old Babylonian Temple, that is perfect for Schoo...

Another project we had while studying Hammurabi and the Babylonians was to build a Ziggurat. While these structures look a bit like pyramids, especially step pyramids, they served a different purpose. While pyramids were tombs for kings, Ziggurats were temples built for gods to use to descend to earth. They typically had between 3-7 levels which were meant to be stairs for the gods to use to reach earth. We found boxes of various sizes (toothpick, baking soda, cereal, Krispy Kreme donut)…