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Wadsworth also contains the pyramid house. "The largest 24-karat gold-plated object ever created" is the private home of Jim Onan, a wealthy Armenian garage builder, and his family. [ 11 ] The Onans occasionally open the house for tours of the 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m 2 ) 6-story structure containing a replica of King Tut's tomb.
Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica.The beginning of its construction dates from 900 to 955 CE. Located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, the mound size was calculated in 1988 as about 100 feet (30 m) high, 955 feet (291 m) long including the access ramp at the southern end ...
Illinois: ‘The House With No Corners’ ... Iowa: Pyramid House. Rising like a mirage along the shores of north-central Iowa’s Clear Lake, the six-bedroom Pyramid House is certainly a local ...
Cahokia Mounds / k ə ˈ h oʊ k i ə / [2] is the site of a Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) [3] directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis.
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The pyramid structure is set upon a square base. [1] To the left of the entryway, is an angel, on the right of the entry stands a sphinx. [1] The pyramid's design combines both Egyptian (the sphinx) and Christian (the angel) symbols. [4] Regardless, the American Institute of Architects' Chicago guide book called the angel "rather out-of-place". [5]
Pyramid (also known as Tuckerville [2]) is an unincorporated community in Ashley Township, Washington County, Illinois, United States. [1] The community is located at the junction of U.S. Route 51 and Illinois Route 15 . [ 2 ]
Other examples of this influence are the Gold Pyramid House in Illinois and the Obelisk (Washington Monument) in Washington, D.C. Movies such as The Mummy (1999) (itself a remake of a 1932 Boris Karloff film) and its sequels demonstrate that ancient Egypt and the discovery of its secrets are still of interest for contemporary western minds.