More than 300 of these pyramids are still intact, almost untouched since they were built nearly 3,000 years ago. “There has been a way of seeing Africa in terms of poverty and conflict which has become a kind of shorthand for the continent that still persists today.” Are the pyramids […]
Egypt civilization appears to have begun about 4,000 to 3,500 B.C. in northern Africa, while the Mayan civilization appears to have arisen around 3300 B.C. in the Yucatan peninsula of North America, now modern Guatemala. Who came before the Mayans? the OlmecScientists are typically split between two theories on the […]
Tombs of early Egyptian kings were bench-shaped mounds called mastabas. Around 2780 BCE, King Djoser’s architect, Imhotep, built the first pyramid by placing six mastabas, each smaller than the one beneath, in a stack to form a pyramid rising in steps. Who was the first pyramid built? Updated 13/12/10: For […]
Rise of the Pyramid-Builders (Egyptian pyramids are much older than American ones; the earliest Egyptian pyramid, the Pyramid of Djoser, was built in the 27 century BC). The earliest known pyramid in the Americas stands at La Venta in Tabasco, Mexico. What country has older pyramids than Egypt? SudanSudan has […]
The Pyramid of Djoser. The Pyramid of Djoser, also spelled Zoser, is widely believed to be the oldest pyramid in the world. It dates back to around 2630 BCE, while construction on the Great Pyramid of Giza began in 2560 BCE, roughly 70 years later. Where is the oldest pyramid […]
Estimated as being erected in 3100 BC, Stonehenge was already 500-1,000 years old before the first pyramid was built. I have been captivated by Stonehenge for almost 60 years. Is anything older than the pyramids? Thousands of monumental structures built from walls of rock in Saudi Arabia are older than […]
northern Egypt. Pyramids of Giza, Arabic Ahrāmāt Al-Jīzah, Giza also spelled Gizeh, three 4th-dynasty (c. 2575–c. 2465 bce) pyramids erected on a rocky plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) in northern Egypt. In ancient times they were included among the Seven Wonders of the […]
The Hohokam people abandoned most of their settlements during the period between 1350 and 1450. What happened to the Anasazi tribe? The Anasazi lived here for more than 1,000 years. Then, within a single generation, they were gone. Between 1275 and 1300 A.D., they stopped building entirely, and the land […]
Once found near present-day St. Louis in Illinois, Cahokia suddenly declined 600 years ago, and no one knows why. About a thousand years ago, a city grew in the floodplain known as the American Bottom, just east of what is now St. Louis in Illinois. What caused the downfall of […]
Some mounds were built along the ridge line of hilltops; others were shaped into platform pyramids, perfect cones or avenues of straight lines. So far as anyone knows, the Mound Builders had no written language; they speak now only through what may be studied from the artifacts they left behind. […]
Cherokees had built the mounds in their country, and that on the occasion of the annual green corn dance it was the custom in an- cient times for each household to procure fresh fire from a new fire kindled in the town-house. Who built the mounds in America? The Native […]
The Memphis Pyramid was originally built to house a 20,000-seat sports and concert arena. The city hoped it would rival the Egyptian pyramids and the St. Louis Gateway Arch in grandeur, but the attraction fell short of expectations. Why did Memphis build a pyramid? The Memphis Pyramid was intended to […]
Share ‘The Mystery of Cahokia Mounds‘ The site of an ancient Native American city, the mounds are located in Collinsville, Illinois in the southern part of the state across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. Cahokia Mounds covers 2,200 acres and contains 70 mounds. Where Native Americans built a […]
The first Indian group to build mounds in what is now the United States are often called the Adenans. They began constructing earthen burial sites and fortifications around 600 B.C. Some mounds from that era are in the shape of birds or serpents, andprobably served religious purposes not yet fully […]
Because of its orientation and some ideas about the nature of ridge-top mounds at the Cahokia site, this mound was excavated between 1967 and 1971 by crews from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In the southeast corner of Mound 72 were indications that a large post had been placed in the […]