1. The Italian Pyramid Connection
After archaeologists had found the Etruscan tomb underneath an Italian City, they were puzzled. In 2011 archaeologists from the U.S. and Italy dug deep under a wine cellar in the city of Orvieto when they found a set of stairs in a wall. As the excavation continued in the mid 20th century, caves and tunnels appeared. After analyzing the structure further, the team realized it had a pyramid shape. These structures dated back to 900 BC and inspired art, writing, fine metalworking and commerce in Europe in addition to the Mediterranean. The sad part of this story is the people that may have been the builders of the pyramid did not survive to tell their story and eventually blended into the Roman empire.
The pointy shape of the top of the pyramid has the same appearance of those found in Nubia, Sudan. In 23 BC, the kingdom of Meroe in Sudan was attacked by the Romans. Adding to the theory of a link from Italy to Africa of this formation.
Another pyramid in Italy that makes people’s heads turn is the Pyramid of Cestius (seen above). It is an ancient structure in the beautiful city of Rome, near the Protestant Cemetery and the Porta San Paolo. If you decide to visit Italy one day, search for the pyramid between the Via Osteria and two ancient roads. It is also one of the most preserved ancient buildings in the city of Rome. After a Japanese businessman named Yuzo Yagi donated €1-million in 2011, he helped restore the damaged pyramid, and it re-opened to the public in May 2015.
2. Pyramids in Canada Everywhere You Turn
When the world thinks of Canada, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver pops up in the minds of the masses. The last place on Earth that one will guess that the great Egyptian pyramids have influenced a nation is Edmonton, Alberta.
Take a drive throughout the downtown core and the outskirts of Edmonton, and you will notice a trend. Let’s start with the three pyramids in the center of the city at the Muttard Conservatory. The Muttard is a series of greenhouses that are the home of plants from around the world. If you walk into the African pyramid, a wave of heat will hit you the minute you walk through the entrance. It is amazing how much heat these plants hold even though they were transported all the way from Africa to Western Canada.
At the top of the building at Edmonton’s City Hall, there is a huge glass pyramid that changes color every few months to green, blue, red, purple and orange. While it is, a human-made pyramid, the purpose of each color that glows inside of the pyramid is unknown.
One of the most attended universities in Edmonton is MacEwan University. It is a few blocks down from the City Hall and students from all over the world attend for a better life full of opportunities in Canada. At the entrance of the university are two pyramids. The reason for these pyramids located less than 10 km from the City Hall and Muttard is unknown.
At the legislative building, there are also pyramids at the top of the government building at the highest point of the facility.
3. Indentured Slaves or Highly Skilled Tradesman: Who Built the Pyramids?
Race will forever be a factor that dictates how people view each other. It isn’t a surprise that the race of the real people that built the Egyptian pyramids continues to be a mystery to some. If we look geographically at Africa at the time that the pyramids emerged, black people were the habitants of Egypt before Eastern Europeans colonized the country in the 19 century. These Europeans included the Greeks, Romans, Turks, and French.
The topic of who the Ancient Egyptians are is considered scientific racism of the 18 centuries by scholars. Theory A states that the Egyptians were Afro-Asiatic-speaking populations from North and East Africa. Theory B says that it was made up of groups of Europeans. According to S.O.Y. Keita, “There is no scientific reason to believe that the primary ancestors of the Egyptian population emerged and evolved outside of northeast Africa. The basic overall genetic profile of the modern population is consistent with the diversity of ancient populations that would have been indigenous to northeastern Africa and subject to the range of evolutionary influences over time.”
In 2010 in the back area of the Giza Pyramids, mud-brick tombs proved that the Ancient Greeks fabricated a story that slaves were the original builders and Hollywood movies continued to propagate the myth leaving most of the world believing the hype. In 1990 a tourist on horseback discovered a wall that was later considered a tomb. The writing was on the wall. It was skilled laborers that came from all areas of Egypt to work on the pyramids during pharaonic times. The workers that died while working had the opportunity to be buried in the tombs close to their pharaohs. There is no way they would have been buried so close to Egypt’s elite society if they were simply slaves.
4. The Controversy Over Pyramids in Greece
Add Greece on the list of European pyramids! Researchers call it the pyramids of Argolis which encompasses several structures in Argolis, Greece. It is the most famous monument in Argolis. The people of Greece were under the impression that they are tombs but researchers in the 20th century believe something entirely different. The reason why Greeks believe this is because a traveler by the name of Pausanias wrote about two pyramid buildings at Hellinikon made for soldiers that died fighting for the throne of Argos.
Unlike the pyramids in Egypt, the substances that were used to build these structures are of gray limestone used for large blocks.
The Greek Ligourion pyramid is northwest of Peloponnese has nearly disappeared, and the left-over sandstone was used to build a church in the area.
The other names of these monuments that were approved as “real man-made pyramids” by archaeologists are below:
Pyramid of Kampia – New Epidaurus, Egyptian Pyramid – Ancient Epidaurus, Pyramid Dalamanara – Nafplion, 2 Pyramids of Fichthia – Mycene, Pyramid of Neapolis.
If the date and architects of these pyramids were undiscovered, is it fair to say that the Egyptians traveled all the way from Africa and built pyramids in Europe?
5. The Orion Mystery
A mind-boggling fact about the Egyptian pyramids is they are made literally in the center of the earth. At the southern point of the King’s Chamber inside of the Great Giza Pyramid, is the same point of the Belt of Orion. The Queens chambers are in the direction of the Sirius star. Here is a quote from The Fingerprints of the Gods by Robert Bauval:
“They’re slated (stars of Orion’s Belt) along with a diagonal in a south-westerly direction about the axis of the Milky Way, and the pyramids slant along a diagonal in a south-westerly direction about the axis of the Nile. If you look carefully on a clear night, you’ll also see that the smallest of the three stars, the one at the top which the Arabs call Mintaka, is slightly offset to the east of the principal diagonal formed by the other two. At 10,450 BC – and at that date only- we find that the pattern of the pyramids on the ground provides a perfect reflection of the model of the stars in the sky. I mean it’s a perfect match-faultless – and it cannot be an accident because the entire arrangement correctly depicts two very unusual celestial events that occurred only at that time.”
I fully understand now why the Ancient Egyptians are considered to be the most advanced civilization ever to live. It takes a village of people to be able to master architecture at this high level of intelligence.
6. What Was Used to Make Egyptian Pyramids?
After searching far and wide for you, I was unable to find out the name of every single particle in the pyramids in Egypt. In the meantime, thanks to archaeologists, the materials tested match what we use today to build real estate. Here’s what I discovered about the Egyptian pyramids:
Per a materials scientist named Joseph Davidovits, the pyramids have been constructed using vegetable matter after he conducted an X-Ray D technique. He did not believe that the Egyptians had the technology to haul limestone bricks. Little did he know!
Casing stones were used on the outer layer to make the pyramids appear polished.
It is easy to become discouraged as a researcher when the pyramids are an enigma. Egyptologist scholars never questioned the stones that make up the pyramids. Egyptian pyramids have formations of rocks, gravel, sand surfaces, and conglomerate. These magnificent buildings were first thought to have limestone substances cast in situ with the help of advanced technology lost thousands of years ago; the limestone was used for the interior walls while mud bricks are inside the temples. Allegedly, Egyptians referred to limestone as “white stone” because the country was made up of seawater during the Cretaceous period. Other stories tell that they are human-made stones that are natural rocks.
Basalt, Granite, and Alabaster were the materials imported from Southern Egypt for the pyramids. Alabaster was the material made for open pits. Mudbricks was a favorite building material in houses, municipal buildings, and Egyptian palaces.
