🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Sahure
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty early · Ancient Egyptian
First pyramid at Abusir (Sahure, 2nd king of the 5th Dynasty): famed for exquisite mortuary-temple reliefs, palm columns and a valley temple joined by causeway.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Bent Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Second pyramid of Sneferu where angle changes mid-construction from 54° to 43°, preserving limestone casing. Unique internal corbel system. Demonstrates learning curve to true pyramid.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Jebel Barkal Pyramid Bar.2 (King Amaninatakilebte)
Napatan, c.538–519 BCE · Kushite Napatan
Pyramid Bar.2 at Jebel Barkal north cemetery for King Amaninatakilebte (c.538–519 BCE, Napatan 27th Dynasty contemporaneous with Persian Egypt).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Rock-cut
Petra — Al Khazneh Treasury Annex Tombs
Nabataean (1st c. BCE–1st c. CE; Treasury c.56 BCE Aretas IV) · Nabataean
Siq-end Treasury excavated by Horsfield 1929 and recent, empty tombs, annex row with loculi and triclinia.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Pepi I
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Large 6th Dynasty pyramid at South Saqqara (78.75 × 78.75 m base, 52.5 m high), most intact Pyramid Texts ( >2,300 lines) giving royal afterlife spells.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Pyramids of Meroë
Meroitic Kingdom · Kushite / Meroitic
Royal cemetery of Kushite Kingdom of Meroë (300 BCE–350 CE) with ~200 steep Nubian pyramids, smaller and narrower than Egyptian, with offering chapels decorated with Egyptian-Kushite reliefs.
🇨🇳 China · Pyramid
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor & Terracotta Army
Qin Dynasty · Qin / Han-precursor
Unopened earthen pyramid mound of Qin Shi Huang (259–210 BCE) with 600 pits, ~8000 terracotta warriors, chariots, weapons protecting subterranean bronze palace described by Sima Qian with mercury…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Sipan Royal Tomb Pyramid Platform
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Sipan Royal Tomb Pyramid Platform in Lambayeque, Sipán, Peru is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Abu Rawash — Lepsius I
Old Kingdom, late 3rd – early 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Enormous unfinished 215 m base mudbrick mass at Abu Rawash — Lepsius I — late 3rd/early 4th Dynasty aborted true pyramid, oriented slightly off cardinal.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Batán Grande — Sicán (Huaca Las Ventanas) Pyramid
Middle Sicán to Late Sicán (Lambayeque) · Sicán / Lambayeque (Moche descendant)
Sicán capital Batán Grande (800–1375 CE): 20 adobe pyramids (Huaca Loro 20 m with Lord of Sicán 2 kg gold mask and 22 sacrifices) in dry forest world-heritage necropolis.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Queen Ankhesenpepi II (Pepi I Queens Field, South Saqqara)
Old Kingdom, late 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Major queen pyramid on the 'Avenue of Queens' south of Pepi I at South Saqqara, belonging to Ankhesenpepi II, wife of Pepi I and mother of Pepi II (late 6th Dynasty).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Palenque Temple of the Inscriptions
Late Classic Maya (675 CE completion; tomb 683 CE interment) · Maya (Palenque Baakal)
Late Classic Maya 27.2 m high 8-step pyramid-temple (600×675 CE) housing only Mesoamerican pyramid tomb comparable to Egyptian: hidden stair 66 steps descending inside to sarcophagus chamber of Pakal…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Neferefre (Raneferef)
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Unfinished pyramid of ephemeral King Neferefre: mastaba-like stump with an intact cult temple, royal statues and papyri found by Czech excavators.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
White-Ham Pyramid
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
White-Ham Pyramid in River Nile State, Sudan is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) pyramid attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Neferirkare
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty mid · Ancient Egyptian
Tallest 5th Dynasty pyramid at Abusir (Neferirkare Kakai): left in stepped form, source of the main Abusir Papyri archive.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Calakmul Structure II
Late Classic · Maya
Massive Late Classic Maya pyramid Structure II at Calakmul (c.600 CE) 55 m high base 120×100 m, twin temples, burial of Yuknom Yich'aak K'ak.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Ephesus Arsinoeion-Octagon — Sanctuary Terrace of Arsinoe
Hellenistic to Roman (288 BCE – 262 CE) · Ptolemaic to Roman Ephesian
Curetes terrace with 36 m Arsinoeion rotunda and Octagon princess tomb.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroë South Cemetery — Pyramid Beg. S.10
Late Napatan to Early Meroitic, c.350–300 BCE · Kushite
South Cemetery pyramid Beg. S.10 (c.350–300 BCE) for Queen (?) Amanislo fragment? 12 m base, heavily eroded sandstone pyramid with mudbrick chapel forecourt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Merenre
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Brief-reigned 6th Dynasty king Merenre's unfinished? pyramid between Pepi I and Djedkare Isesi at South Saqqara, base 78.75 m, attempted height 52.5 m, with fine Pyramid Texts and polychrome relief…
🇨🇴 Colombia · Megalith
San Agustín Archaeological Park
San Agustín Culture · San Agustín
San Agustín Archaeological Park in Huila Department, Colombia is a San Agustín Culture megalithic attributed to San Agustín culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 744).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Menkaure
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Smallest of three Giza pyramids, Menkaure, with granite lower casing and three subsidiary queens' pyramids.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Khentkaus II (Abusir)
Old Kingdom (5th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
Queen's pyramid of Khentkaus II (wife of Neferirkare, mother of Neferefre and Nyuserre), completed under Nyuserre with its own papyri archive.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Southern South Saqqara Pyramid (Shetayet? Complex)
Late Middle Kingdom (13th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
Unfinished Southern South Saqqara pyramid 100 m south of Khendjer — late 13th-Dynasty 52–60 m mudbrick trench c.1730 BCE, abandoned without burial chamber.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Headless Pyramid — Saqqara North (Lepsius XXIX)
Old Kingdom, late Fifth Dynasty (or First Intermediate Period 10th Dynasty, if Merikare) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom — 5th Dynasty / Herakleopolitan 10th Dynasty)
The 'Headless Pyramid' (Lepsius XXIX / Steinkepyramide XXIX) lies 120 m east of the Pyramid of Teti at Saqqara, catalogued by Lepsius 1843 as headless because no casing survives.