Pyramids
Pyramidal-shaped WHS (excluding Ziggurats, which have their own connection)
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Agadez | Its 27 metre tall minaret is in the form of a truncated pyramid. (AB ev) | |
| Ancient villages of Northern Syria | "Al-Bara.... is renowned for its 6th century pyramidal tombs" (AB ev) | |
| Angkor | Baksei Chamkrong, Ak Yum and other temples are pyramidal | |
| Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe | 40 m high pyramid (AB ev) | |
| Borobudur | a general design similar to the shape of pyramid (wiki) | |
| Cahokia Mounds | "Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica" (wiki) | |
| Calakmul | ||
| Caral-Supe | ||
| Chan Chan | Huaca Obispo | |
| Chichen-Itza | ||
| Chola Temples | ||
| Copán | ||
| Crespi d'Adda | Crespi chapel - a decorated tower-pyramid (official website) | |
| El Tajin | Its three plazas are surrounded on all sides by monumental structures in the form of pyramids (AB ev) | |
| Funerary and memory sites of the First World War | Ossuaire français de Navarin: monument aux morts des armées de Champagne, "The ossuary - monument to the Armies of Champagne has the shape of a pyramid topped with three statues of menacing soldiers" | |
| Gebel Barkal | ||
| Koguryo Kingdom | Tomb of the General | |
| Koh Ker | "Prasat Prang is a thirty-eight-metre-high stepped pyramid" (AB ev) | |
| Kremlin and Red Square | Red Square - Lenin's Mausoleum | |
| M'Zab Valley | The minarets of the mosques have a pyramidal form, e.g. those in Ghardaïa and El Atteuf. | |
| Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor | ||
| Meroe | several pyramidal funerary monuments | |
| Mexico City and Xochimilco | Templo Mayor | |
| Oaxaca and Monte Alban | Monte Alban | |
| Palenque | ||
| Paris, Banks of the Seine | Louvre | |
| Polonnaruva | Sathmahal Prasada, a pyramid shaped, seven storied building, thought to be an unusually shaped stupa. | |
| Potsdam | In Neuer Garten | |
| Pyramids (Memphis) | ||
| Quebrada de Humahuaca | At the Pucara in Tilcara: ... stands a monument resembling a pyramid with a truncated top. It is a tribute to archeologists Juan D. Ambrosetti, Salvador Debenedetti and Eric Boman, and it was built by architect Mart?n Noel in 1935. | |
| Quirigua | a highly elaborate system of pyramids, terraces, and staircases (AB ev) | |
| Rome | Pyramid of Cestius | |
| Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple | a distinctive and pyramidal Vimana (horizontally stepped tower) (AB ev) | |
| Teotihuacan | Pyramid of the Sun (third largest in the World after the Great Pyramid of Cholula and the Great Pyramid of Giza) and Pyramid of the Moon | |
| Tequila | Teuchitlan site of Guachimontones, '..In the centre is an extant multi-layered circular pyramid with four staircases' | |
| The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier | Chandigarh, Palace of Assembly "The assembly’s rooftop opens up to two light sources: a tilted pyramid and a hyperbolic dome." | |
| Tikal National Park | Several larger and smaller ones, including Twin Pyramid Complexes (wiki) | |
| Tiwanaku | The Akapana Pyramid | |
| Tomb of Askia | The tomb is pyramidal | |
| Uxmal | ||
| Vienna | memorial to Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria sculpted by Antonio Canova, in the Augustinian Church | |
| Xochicalco |
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