Do you find the fact that both Ancient Egyptian and Mayan civilizations built pyramids facinating?

No. Give a child a set of blocks and tell them to build the tallest building they can that won't blow down. They will - probably in a relatively short time - hit on the idea of a pyramidal structure, probably extremely similar to those built by the Egyptians and Mayans (that is: a four-cornered pyramid).

What would have been fascinating is if they had both hit upon **any other** large structural form. The four-cornered pyramid is the most basic - the least ingenious, the most obvious and intuitive.

Most stone-aged cultures have (and had) polytheistic religion. I am no anthropologist, but I can recall no native stone age or copper age culture that has other than a polytheistic religion.

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ancient egyptians had to cut big blocks of rock(granitetc.) they had to use wooden blocks to transport the 2 and a half ton blocks to the needed place. They hand to start with a base just lining them up to make a square. They then had to use the wooden boards to get the blocks to go above those already put down blocks. That just added up. over much time and MANY people a pyramid was completed. There are 3 different types of Egyptian Pyramids so the way to build each is different. Hope that helped.

No not really, If you look at them they don't really resemble each other, at all, and their purposes are COMPLETELY different, you're confusing this with something bigger, some 'deeper' explanation to why they both built pyramids, when the simple answer is that, way back then, it was simply easier to build a pyramid.

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@ Aaron

Bull **** man, The Great Pyramid of Khufu or Cheops is the largest pyramid in the world, mezoamerican pyramids hardly compare.

And that's in Ghiza, near Cairo

Do you find the fact that both Ancient Egyptian and

Mayan civilizations built pyramids fascinating?

--A lot more fascinating then the Dark Ages. Pyramids

are a clear indication of civilized progress, to know that

people have achieved that is respectable.

They aren't the only ancient cultures that built them.

Pyramids as a world wide cultural phenomenon is an interesting study.

Especially interesting are how the pyramids built by many cultures line up with the stars...etc.

Yes, pyramids are structurally sound, however, there is more to it than that.

It's interesting, what these monuments and several others all around the world were used for I think were basically launch pads for astral projection. The "ancient astronauts" didn't need a spaceship to go to outerspace, they knew the universe was within themselves, so they took certain plants which allowed them to access their inner minds and travel through inner space. Same thing with a lot of the lavish sun domes in the old religious temples. The "high" knowledge of the ancients.

They aren't they only ones. North America is filled with tribes that were mound builders. (Imagine a temple that a mound of dirt covered with grass.)

I don't fully understand what you are getting at though. Polytheistic religion= pyramids?

We make the mistake of thinking we are a lot more intelligent than ancient people were. They took what they had and made what they needed just like us.

Not really. Structurally speaking, if you're going to build big and don't have steel, a pyramid is the most stable structure.

The Mysteries of the Ages... really aren't.

ETA: "Similar religions"? Riiigggghhhhtttt...

No. Native American pyramids were better though. Largest pyramid in the world is not in Egypt, but in the Americas.