While the world continues to swoon over Saudi Arabia’s ambitious projects like NEOM City and its incredible segments like THE LINE, TROJENA, Sindalah, something of a similar scale and vision had brewed in Dubai in 2008. Not many are aware that the glitzy Emirate had plans to build Ziggurat, an environmentally sustainable futuristic city housed inside a pyramid. Sounds outlandish, right?

The city, akin to NEOM, was based entirely on renewable sources of energy and was touted to be home to no fewer than a million people.

With facial recognition, an advanced and personalized security system was in place, which Dubai is anyway well-known for. Inspired by the pyramids of the Egyptians and Mayans, Ziggurat was to go into construction in 2021 and was meant to be completed by 2028.

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