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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