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n. One of a number of monumental structures built by ancient civilizations in the shape of a pyramid with a rectangular base.
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" Pyramid" in the context of ancient architecture primarily refers to the Egyptian pyramids (see List of Egyptian pyramids). Various other structures built in antiquity have also been called pyramids:
- Mesoamerican step pyramids, see Mesoamerican pyramids
- Chinese pyramids
- Mesopotamian Ziggurats
- The Nubian pyramids, Sudan
- The Pyramid of Hellinikon, Greece
- The Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, Porta San Paolo, Rome
- The Star Pyramid or Pulemelei Mound, Samoa
- The Peruvian Pyramids
Usage examples of "ancient pyramid".
Then you can tell your friends you were actually inside the ancient pyramid of Khufu.
THEY FOLLOWED THE PRIEST and his young assistant out of the main part of the village, toward the ancient pyramid that towered above the evening forest.
The fortifications were not nearly as formidable as the palisade around the city of the ancient Pyramid of the Sun, but were sufficient.
He marched down the corridors, smoothing his fear as he rode the turbolift to the upper levels of the ancient pyramid.
He nodded toward the base of the ancient pyramid to where the warrior girl and Lusa were setting out for a morning run.
They fell in a descending spiral until he touched down gently on the apex of the ancient pyramid.
Michelle thought it looked like a model of an ancient pyramid construction site.