Talk:Ziggurat

The main value of ziggurats in Mesopotamia was flood safety. The community could flee up the man made hill when the river flooded. The same is true for some tels and the grand plazas and pyramids of mezo-america. Its believe that in the case of some ziggurats high value items were stored at the top for flood safety and the worship patern was set by these factors. The lower status someone or something was the lower on the stepped levels you got to wait out the flood with whatever belongings you had managed to drag up there.

In areas with high risk of dangerous flooding building raised platforms or ziggurats may be very useful particularly if the lower levels of a hollow ziggurat are limited to flood tolerant spaces. I.e. Sealed water tanks, squash courts and car parks. Wesley bruce 16:02, 4 January 2012 (CET)