tanit you mean the babylonian zigurats ? i´ve seen a few picture and image depictions and they always remind of the aztec piramids :\

and yes bobbin i might have exagerated a litle bit but normally those constructions didn´t had the social meaning of building flats purelly for habitacional purposes before the charties 2 store high buildings during the carthies 6 store high buildings and after the carthies only a few places in rome with such buildings and then again not for habitation (according to what i read but ofc i don´t claim to know everything) since those roman 6 store high buildings where a kind of modern shopping centers with each store a kind of product