Philadelphiaâs building-related codes regulate the construction industry and set forth the legal responsibilities that come with property ownership.
The ziggurat evolved out of the platform temples of the Ubaid culture (5000 to 3800 BCE). These platforms were intended to raise the shrine of the god closer to heaven. The White Temple at Uruk (about 3150 BCE) appears to be part of an early predecessor of the ziggurat.
some in the suburb of St. Germain move zig zag. The German word 'zickzack' dates from around the same time and is known (in Sperander) from 1727. That usage referred to the fortifications of castles, the walls of which were sometimes built in zig-zag form. Zic-zac/zick-zack soon began to be written as zig-zag.