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The pyramids of Egypt had smooth, sloping sides, but not all pyramids built in ancient times looked like that. Some had sides that looked like a set of stairs, and these were called step pyramids, or ziggurats. The greatest ziggurat of the Ancient World was in the city of Ur, in Sumeria, which flourished in the Mideast around th
