Two thousand years ago a mysterious and little known people ruled the northern coast of Peru. They built huge pyramids in the desert, comparable in size to the Great Pyramids in Egypt. They were called the Moche. Horizon: The Lost Civilisation of Peru, BBC 2005
They were giant pyramids built as a series of platforms ... Some of the pyramids are richly decorated and may also have been sacred centres. Yet others doubled as burial mounds. These were clearly the centres of a rich and powerful people. ibid.
They were all built if you ask any Egyptologist as tombs of kings. That said, there are no Egyptian texts that explicitly tell you what the pyramid is for. Lawrence M Berman, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Most historians believe the pyramids were royal tombs designed to help the pharaohs on their final journey. Nostradamus Effect: Doomsday Hieroglyphs, History 2009
They contend that the Egyptians were directing the attention of future generations towards Orion. Because Orion holds the key to their prophecy of a celestial apocalypse. ibid.
I wanted my wife to see what a great magician I was. We went accordingly after dinner with candles. I had with me a small notebook in which was written the preliminary invocation of the Goetia. Aleister Crowley, spent night with wife in King’s Chamber
The pyramids: eternal mystery in themselves provide additional evidence to support the premise that Earth was visited by ancient astronauts. In Search of Ancient Astronauts, 1973
To some the massive structures were not designed as tombs for the pharaohs but are in reality vast astronomical calculators. ibid.
Cholula, Mexico, is home to the largest pyramid in the world. More than 3,000 years old it is estimated it took approximately 1,400 years to complete. ibid.
Of course aliens did not build the pyramids. It was our human ancestors. But our ancestors built the pyramids with the assistance of the guardians of the sky. Otherwise referred to as the gods. Giorgio Tsoukalos, editor Legendary Times magazine
Some technology was used. Giorgio Tsoukalos
I think the Great Pyramid is a giant energy device. William Henry, author
The Giza Pyramid in Egypt is a coil generator and was built to tap into The Grid. The main control panel for this was the Ark of the Covenant. The Arrivals, 2008
Hundreds have been discovered all around the planet. They stand alone in desert sands, they’re found hidden in tropical jungles silent and enigmatic. Long after they were first built they continue to amaze and inspire. But above all pyramids remain a deep source of mystery. Secrets of the Pyramids, Channel 5 2003
Early myths told of a race of giant builders. Modern legends tell of a race of super-intelligent engineers from a lost civilisation or even from outer space. ibid.
Derivatives of tobacco and cocaine, plants native to the Americas, have been found in the tissues of some ancient Egyptian mummies. ibid.
The tools and machines must have been equal to the task of actually building the pyramids. Christopher Dunn, author Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt
They did not think it was built by humans like us ... According to the ancient Aztec tradition the Cholula pyramid was built by a being they call a Giant. Michael Cremo, author Forbidden Archaeology
Planet Earth ten thousand years ago: for two and a half million years our prehistoric ancestors had been living in caves passing the time by bashing stones together. Then suddenly everything changed. And people began to build huge monuments all over the planet. But how and why? It’s the biggest mystery in human history. The World’s Strangest UFO Stories: Did Aliens Build the Pyramids? 2006
The believers have had a hard time explaining why the aliens did all this. Were they just trying to show off? ibid.
A massive pyramid ... In the centre a gateway adorned with Sphinxes. Lost Cities of the Ancients: The Dark Side of Hattusha, BBC 2012
In the foothills of the Andes in northern Peru there’s a remote valley. It’s a place still haunted by its past. Long ago the people who lived in the Lambayeque Valley came to believe that building pyramids was essential to their survival. They built two hundred and fifty pyramids. One of the most impressive feats of engineering in the ancient world. A vast valley of monuments that dominated the landscape. But one day something terrible happened here and the civilisation disappeared. Along with all two hundred and fifty pyramids. Lost Cities of the Ancients: The Cursed Valley of the Pyramids
Carbon-dating shows that the first pyramid at Tucume was built around 1,100 A.D. ibid.
And across the region scientists have found evidence of a supernatural force the ancient people of the Valley most feared. When it struck it drove them to purify their cities by fire and abandon them for ever. This region has been subject to some of the most extreme climate disasters on the planet. Disasters the Lords and the Pyramids themselves, the source of magic and power, were supposed to protect the people from ... El Ninos. They still strike in the region today. ibid.
The Temple became the scene for a much darker series of offerings. ibid.
The killing was soon to begin. The one hundred and nineteen skeletons themselves give us a detailed description of what it would have been like to be ritually executed outside the temple ... Finally the victim’s heart was cut out. But the sacrifice didn’t stop the Spanish advance. ibid.
The cursed city had to be purified by flames. ibid.
This is the Valley of the Pyramids. This whole place is full of pyramids ... There are about two hundred and fifty pyramids in this Valley. I don’t know anywhere else that’s got anything like this concentration of pyramids. This is the pyramid place. Professor Dan Sandweiss, University of Maine
That’s it for pyramids. No more. The end of this pyramid building tradition that you could trace back for maybe three thousand years. It’s over. That’s it. Professor Dan Sandweiss
Are these hills actually the world’s largest pyramids hidden for years on the fringes of the iron curtain? Built by a lost civilisation. 7,000 years before the Egyptians. Ancient X Files s2e9: Crucifixion Decoded & Bosnian Pyramids, National Geographic 2012
Visoko, Bosnia: a small town in eastern Europe. But according to one Bosnian-American explorer a huge historical discovery. For years they were thought to be strangely symmetrical hills. ibid.
On the sides of the pyramids are sandstone pavements with steps. ibid.
An extraordinary building feat for such an ancient civilisation. ibid.
All we know for certain is that these elusive monuments once entombed the great pharaohs ... or were they burial tombs? (Universe & Pyramids) The Universe s8e2: Pyramids, History 2014
It doesn’t line up with the north star at all ... Stars move about through time. ibid.
The less than perfect diagonal line-up of the pyramids may have more to do with geography and geology than cosmic inspiration. ibid.
They might be part of a mysterious solar cult. ibid.
The tomb of China’s first emperor: a man-made mountain some three hundred and fifty metres on each side; between fifty and seventy metres high; and made from more than three a half million tons of earth. And it was more than just a tomb. It was nearly six thousand hectares. One of the largest mortuary complexes anywhere on Earth. China’s Lost Pyramids, National Geographic 2010
The ancient accounts don’t even mention what his tomb builders tucked away in three obscure pits in one corner of the tomb. An army of clay eight thousand strong: the now famous terracotta warriors. ibid.
Ancient records say that when the first emperor’s tomb was finished it was one hundred and fifteen metres high – twice as tall as it is today. At that height its base would have been five hundred metres on each side. Making the tomb five times bigger than it is today, and four times bigger than Egypt’s great pyramid. ibid.
Even for strong young men in their prime of life building the first emperor’s tomb was a living hell. Tomb workers laboured from dawn to dusk. Worked to exhaustion. Deprived of food and sleep. Thousands succumbed to miserable deaths. ibid.
The three pyramids seem to be aligned to the three constellation stars of Orion. Professor Michio Kaku
The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. Thomas Fuller
Pyramids and temples towered over plazas and ball courts. Nova: Cracking the Maya Code, PBS 2008
The skills of the ancient pyramid builders evolved radically in only a century. Secrets of the Egyptian Pyramids, Channel 5 2015