The soil left by the excavations was used to build long artificial terraces, two to four meters high, on which they built their houses.
The land was paved, creating an artificial terrace which sets forth a square and in the middle of that was the temple.
It is a small artificial terrace that supports the damaged vestiges of a tile construction.
Gardens began to follow the natural landscape, rather than moving earth to shape the ground into artificial terraces.
The structures of the site rest on a series of artificial terraces with twenty seven mounds.
The main church in the complex was built on the eastern part of an artificial terrace.
The "palace" is located on an artificial terrace and consists of three wings.
It was on a heap of rolling stones, on an artificial terrace, certainly not five feet square in all.
These groups of buildings were built on hills or artificial terraces to make them seem more imposing.
A great quantity of buildings were constructed on artificial terraces upon the slopes of a hill.