Does Bosna really have the bigest pyramid?
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The world's largest pyramid is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in Puebla, Mexico, with an estimated volume of 3.3 million m³ (4.3 million yd³).
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"How were the great pyramids of Egypt built?"\n\nVery, very carefully
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What exactly you are asking is something of a mystery in of itself. However, I'll give it a go:\n\n1. Queen of the Arabian Sea\n2. Christchurch\n3.King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia\n\nThe 3rd answer assumes you really mean largest - i.e. covers the most area. If you mean busiest, then you'll get into endless arguments over how thats defined; and the answer varies between, O'Hare and Atlanta in the USA and Heathrow in the UK(London) etc etc
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OK, you discovered that did you? The next step is for you to notice that the pyramids along the Nile are laid out to mimic the shape of the constellation Orion. I'll wait, go Google that to check. \n\nWhen you are convinced of that, then you must have two more bits of information. Your brain ready for this? \n\nLife on the Nile depended upon the annual flooding to bring life-giving water to the fields. No flooding, not much crops, starvation. Remember Pharaoh's dreams about the fat cows and the lean cows? Right. \n\nPriests need to be able to predict things for their people. It gives people reasons to support their priests. There really are not much as what you can call seasons so near the equator. One thing did show when the flood SHOULD be coming (in otherwords, when it would be raining down south in the mountains of the headwaters of the Nile) and that was when the constellation of Orion, or more properly, the brightest star in the sky (besides the sun) Sirius would rise just a few moments before the sun - the helical rising of Sirius.\n\nThere is a shaft, often called an "air shaft" that goes down the Great Pyramid at Giza, very strictly aligned. When astronomers were able to do computer modeling to take into consideration the procession of the equinoxes and the apparent wobble of the earth on its axis, they were astonished to find out that this air shaft aligned to when Sirius would rise with the Sun. \n\nSirius, as you probably have seen used as the logo for Sirius satellite radio, is called "The Dog Star." \n\nHow does that all go together? And why am I telling you this? One more thing and I will let you go look some more.\n\nLook up the Dogon people of Africa. Remember now that Egypt is on the African continent. They have a story of how they got here (earth). They claim they got here on ships with Gods from another place. That place is Sirius. The gods, they say, had fish tails - looks a lot like the great God Dagon over in the Middle East, Philistines worshipped Him - and at least one of the gods died on the journey. \n\nBut god and dog are English words. None of this is real. This is all just fancy word-play made up to confuse you. Nobody believes this. This is not a story my people tell; this is just something I tell you who read this right now. \n\nDrab as a fool, aloof as a bard!
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-First-Ever-European-Pyramid-Uncovered-in-Bosnia-22014.shtml
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If there was sand under the Egyptian pyramids they would have fallen down by now.  Some that were built on poor foundations already have fallen down.  The Great Pyramids near Cairo were built on a rocky plateau and that is why they are still in good condition.  They have burial chambers under them cut into the rock but the chamber under the biggest was not used.  \n\nBy the time these big pyramids were built the ancient Egyptians had a few hundred years experience in building them so they knew just exactly what they were doing.  You can see some of their earlier efforts in this site.\n\nhttp://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/dsteppyramid1.htm\n\nThe only real mystery attached to the Egyptian pyramids is why they put so much resources into them. \n\nThe answer is "rock".
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Through the Ouachita Mountain Range in Eastern Oklahoma, and all along the Indian Nation Turnpike, there are miles and miles of rolling mounds as far as you can see. These are NOT burial grounds.\nI think Pathstr8t was historically correct, but that answer was quite insulting, if you ask me. ONE, you must be "studying these things" or you wouldn't be asking. TWO, "teepee" is a correct term, and THREE, what makes them so sure there weren't villages where mounds developed, because I know my father and I have found many, many arrowheads and artifacts in those mounded plowed fields.There is no need to be insulting to other askers.
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The strong faith and believe of the people who used to live in that region. Historians say egyptiens, but believe me, egyptiens these days are not the same as the old egyptiens!!!!....\nSo i doubt its from the same transendence, the same blood...you know what i mean!\nProof of sarcofagus of the workers...\n\nMy other theory is Aliens, xtraterrestrial cosmic power who helped the people to build! \nProof of maya pyramid...(another mystery)\n\nits frustrating to go inside it though! Clostrophobic dark and tiny walking spaces!!!!
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under the pyramid where it says The great seal
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Excellent question. I have often thought about this before. They say that Egyptians never came to the new world but I don't buy it. Pyramids, heiroglyphs, burials, tombs And they way they looked. Too much to be coincidence. National geographic has a special called the curse of the cocaine mummies. They found the coca plant in Egyptian mummies which proves that they had trade.
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The twin streams of Egypt's history converge just below the Delta at Cairo, where the greatest city in the Islamic world sprawls across the Nile towards the Pyramids, those supreme monuments of antiquity. Every visitor to Egypt comes here, to reel at the Pyramids' baleful mass and the seething immensity of Cairo, with its bazaars, mosques and Citadel, and extraordinary Antiquities Museum. It's equally impossible not to find yourself carried away by the streetlife, where medieval trades and customs coexist with a modern, cosmopolitan mix of Arab, African and European influences.\n\nCairo has been the largest city in Africa and the Middle East ever since the Mongols wasted Imperial Baghdad in 1258. Acknowledged as Umm Dunya or "Mother of the World" by medieval Arabs, and as Great Cairo by nineteenth-century Europeans, it remains, as Jan Morris writes in Destinations, "one of the half-dozen supercapitals – capitals that are bigger than themselves or their countries … the focus of a whole culture, an ideology or a historical moment". As Egypt has been a prize for conquerors from Alexander the Great to Rommel, so Cairo has been a fulcrum of power in the Arab world from the Crusades unto the present day. The ulema of its thousand-year-old Al-Azhar Mosque (for centuries the foremost centre of Islamic intellectual life) remains the ultimate religious authority for millions of Sunni Muslims, from Jakarta to Birmingham. Wherever Arabic is spoken, Cairo's cultural magnetism is felt. Every strand of Egyptian society knits and unravels in this febrile megalopolis.\n\nEgyptians have two names for the city, one ancient and popular, the other Islamic and official. The foremost is Masr, meaning both the capital and the land of Egypt – "Egypt City" – an ur-city that endlessly renews itself and dominates the nation, an idea rooted in pharaonic civilization. (For Egyptians abroad, "Masr" refers to their homeland; within its borders it means the capital.) Whereas Masr is timeless, the city's other name, Al-Qahira (The Conqueror), is linked to an event: the Fatimid conquest that made this the capital of an Islamic empire that embraced modern-day Libya, Tunisia, Palestine and Syria. The name is rarely used in everyday speech.\n\nBoth archetypes still resonate and in monumental terms are symbolized by two dramatic landmarks: the Pyramids of Giza at the edge of the Western Desert and the great Mosque of Mohammed Ali – the modernizer of Islamic Egypt – which broods atop the Citadel. Between these two monuments sprawls a vast city, the colour of sand and ashes, of diverse worlds and time zones, and gross inequities. All is subsumed into an organism that somehow thrives in the terminal ward: medieval slums and Art Deco suburbs, garbage-pickers and marbled malls, donkey carts and limos, piousness and "the oaths of men exaggerating in the name of God". Cairo lives by its own contradictions.\n\nThis is a city, as Jan Morris put it, "almost overwhelmed by its own fertility". Its population is today estimated at around eighteen million and is swollen by a further million commuters from the Delta and a thousand new migrants every day. Today, one third of Cairene households lack running water; a quarter of them have no sewers, either. Up to three million people reside in squatted cemeteries – the famous Cities of the Dead. The amount of green space per citizen has been calculated at thirteen square centimetres, not enough to cover a child's palm. Whereas earlier travellers noted that Cairo's air smelt "like hot bricks", visitors now find throat-rasping air pollution, chiefly caused by traffic. Cairo out-pollutes LA every day of the week: breathing the atmosphere downtown is reputedly akin to smoking thirty cigarettes a day.\n\nCairo's genius is to humanize these inescapable realities with social rituals. The rarity of public violence owes less to
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Listed In Order!!!\n\nA gigantic stone structure near the ancient city of Memphis, serving as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu \n\nThe Great Pyramid of Giza \n\nA palace with legendary gardens built on the banks of the Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II \n\nThe Hanging Gardens of Babylon\n\nAn enormous statue of the Greek father of gods, carved by the great sculptor Pheidias \n\nThe Statue of Zeus at Olympia\n\nA beautiful temple in Asia Minor erected in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature \n\nThe Temple of Artemis at Ephesus\n\nA fascinating tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria \n\nThe Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\n\nA colossus of Helios the sun-god, erected by the Greeks near the harbor of a Mediterranean Island \n\nThe Colossus of Rhodes\n\nA lighthouse built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos off the coast of their capital city \n\nThe Lighthouse of Alexandria
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Perhaps the pyramids in Bosnia or... a song by Kimblerly Locke entitled 8th world wonder.\n\nextra info: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186568,00.html
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USA doesnt have The sphinx,Pyramids or the nile. Egypt doesnt have Georg Bush,Oprah Winfrey or WWF wrestling.
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It was emperor Qin. His tomb is actually about a mile away from the terra cotta warriors and archaeologists have just discovered his tomb, but haven't opened it yet. The warriors are amazing. There's actually three excavation pits. The main one is the first one when you enter the gates. You enter the doors and it's just massive. It's like a giant football field and there they are. It is surreal and majestic at the same time because you see them in books and on television, but to actually see it in real life is a once in a lifetime experience. In the parking lot of the park, there's actually a huge statue of Qin.
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Pyramid-shaped structures were built by many ancient civilizations. The most famous are the Egyptian pyramids — huge pyramids built of brick or stone. Standard Archaeology claims that they were used as tombs for pharaohs, however their many surprising features have birthed many alternative theories, particularly since the great pyramids have never yielded a body. The Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the largest in Egypt and in the world. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and the only one of the seven to survive into modern times. The ancient Egyptians capped the peaks of their pyramids with gold and covered their faces with polished white limestone, though many of the stones used for the purpose have fallen or been removed for other structures over the millennia.\n\nTo the south of Egypt the Nubians also built pyramids. They built far more than the Egyptians, but they are much smaller. The Nubian pyramids were constructed at a much steeper angle than Egyptian ones and were not tombs, but monuments to dead kings. Pyramids were built in Nubia up until the AD 300s.\n\nThe Mesopotamians also built step pyramids, or ziggurats. In ancient times these were brightly painted. Since they were constructed of mud-brick, little remains of them. The biblical Tower of Babel is believed to be a Babylonian ziggurat.\n\nA number of Mesoamerican cultures also built pyramid-shaped structures. Mesoamerican pyramids were also usually stepped, with temples on top, more similar to the Mesopotamian ziggurat than the Egyptian pyramid. The largest pyramid by volume is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla. This pyramid is also considered the largest monument ever constructed anywhere in the world, but it is still being excavated. There is an unusual pyramid with a circular plan at the site of Cuilcuilco, now inside Mexico City and mostly covered with lava from an ancient eruption of Xictli.\n\nPyramids in Mexico were considered sacrificial places (used to kill slaves, in worship of their powerful gods).\n\nThere are other pyramid-shaped ancient monuments found in parts of Georgia.\nPyramid of Cestius\nEnlarge\nPyramid of Cestius\n\nThere is a pyramid in ancient Rome. The 27-meter-high Pyramid of Cestius was built by the end of the first century BC and still exists today, close to the Porta San Paolo.\n\nThere are quite a few flat-top pyramids in China. The First Emperor of Qin (221 B.C.~), with the terracotta warriors in vicinity, was buried under a large pyramid outside modern day Xi'an. In the following centuries a dozen more Chinese royalties of Han Dynasty were also buried under flat top pyramidal earth works.
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biggest: Prague Castle\noldest: EL CASTILLO DE GUZMAN EL BUENO in Spain