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"'''Pyramids'''" is a general travel term referring to a large number of man-made structures with similar characteristics, namely, an expansive rectangular base, with sides tapering to a point above the centre of the base. | "'''Pyramids'''" is a general travel term referring to a large number of man-made structures with similar characteristics, namely, an expansive rectangular base, with sides tapering to a point above the centre of the base. | ||
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* Cairo/Giza — the most famous pyramids of all, the Giza Pyramids, just outside modern Cairo | * Cairo/Giza — the most famous pyramids of all, the Giza Pyramids, just outside modern Cairo | ||
Revision as of 00:18, 29 July 2023
Arabic MixedGrill_banner.jpg|1200px "Pyramids" is a general travel term referring to a large number of man-made structures with similar characteristics, namely, an expansive rectangular base, with sides tapering to a point above the centre of the base.
While many people usually associate them with the ancient cultures Ancient Egypt|of Egypt and Central America, the pyramids, both ancient and modern, can be found at a variety of locations around the globe, including:
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Egypt
Esfinge i Gran Piramide - The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx
- Cairo/Giza — the most famous pyramids of all, the Giza Pyramids, just outside modern Cairo
- Abusir
- Dahshur
- Meidum — one of the earliest pyramids built by the ancient Egyptians
- Saqqara
France
- Paris/1st arrondissement (central Paris) — the Louvre Museum is home to the most famous modern pyramid, built in glass and steel
Guatemala
- Iximche — Mayan ruins
- Tikal — impressive Mayan ruins
Italy
- Rome/Aventino-Testaccio — the Italian capital has a famous steep-sided pyramid, built as an ancient cenotaph for a nobleman's tomb
Mexico
Chichen Itza 3 - El Castillo - Chichen Itza
- Chichen Itza
- Palenque
- Teotihuacan — some of the largest pyramids of the world in what was once the largest city of the Pre-Columbian Americas
Sudan
- Meroë — the site of the pyramids built by the Nubians, the southern neighbours of the ancient Egyptians
- Merowe — downriver from Meroë, Jebel Barkal near Merowe is the site of another set of Sudanese pyramids
United States of America
- Las Vegas — a large pyramidical structure is to be found at a Las Vegas casino
- Long Beach — the gymnasium for the baskeball and volleyball teams on the California State University, Long Beach campus is an impressive 18-story-tall blue pyramid
See also
- Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/Pyramid — a dive site in South Africa, marked by and named for a pointed rock above it
- Pyramid Lake — a lake in the US state of Nevada, named after a pyramid-like limestone formation that emerges from its waters