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THREE PYRAMIDS DISCOVERED IN MONTEVECCHIA, ITALY
Posted April 25.03

Marco V. of Varese, Italy writes, "You may be interested in a discovery which has been recently made: three pyramids were discovered thanks to satellite and aerial imagery in northern Italy, in the town of Montevecchia (40 km from Milan).

"They are the first pyramids ever discovered in Italy and the dimensions are quite impressive; the highest pyramid is 150 meters tall. They are stone buildings, as recent excavations have proved. However, they are now completely covered by ground and vegetation, so that they now look like hills.

The inclination degree of all the three pyramids is 42/43° and there is a perfect alignment with the Orion constellation (there are a lot of similarities to the Egyptian pyramids).

"Their age is still undefined although they are surely older than 3000 years. Nothing was found nearby which may help to date the structures and in the area there was not any civilization able to build similar structures at the time (the people who lived there were mainly gatherers and hunters).

"You can find some pictures at:
http://www.lombardiainrete.it/turismo/Storico/articolo.asp?Id=127
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The site is in Italian, however there are some (not very good) pics.

"The news was reported in many newspaper although no further investigations have been made yet."

To me they look like natural hillocks that have been terraced for cultivation. But it's impossible to say without closer investigation.
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I agree. Only an archaeological survey will be able to pin down whether they're natural features or not.
 
"Their age is still undefined although they are surely older than 3000 years. Nothing was found nearby which may help to date the structures and in the area there was not any civilization able to build similar structures at the time (the people who lived there were mainly gatherers and hunters).
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3000 years... late Bronze Age... Hunter Gatherers? I think you'll find it was a seat of at least one 'civilised' culture.

Mayby some ancient monarch visited Egypt, saw the pyramids and thought "Nice, I'll get the plebs to build me some like that when I get home..."
 
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Maybe these are the earliest pyramids found in Italy but the tomb of Gaius Cestius stands 36.4 meters tall on the Aurelian Wall near the Porta Ostiensis. In her book, Death & Burial in the Roman World, J. M. C. Toynbee speculates that its shape was due to the fashion for things Egyptian after the annexation of Egypt to the Empire after Actium. :cool:
 
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Maybe these are the earliest pyramids found in Italy but the tomb of Gaius Cestius stands 36.4 meters tall on the Aurelian Wall near the Porta Ostiensis. In her book, Death & Burial in the Roman World, J. M. C. Toynbee speculates that its shape was due to the fashion for things Egyptian after the annexation of Egypt to the Empire after Actium. :cool:
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The Pyramid of Cestius is one of the best-preserved ancient structures in Rome. Its form resembles the steeper-sided pyramids of Nubia more than the less steep-sided pyramids of the Nile Valley in Egypt.
The pyramid was built about 18–12 BC as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a magistrate and member of one of the four great religious corporations in Rome, the Septemviri Epulonum. It is of brick-faced concrete covered with slabs of white marble standing on a travertine foundation. The pyramid measures 100 Roman feet (29.6 m) square at the base and stands 125 Roman feet (37 m) high.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Cestius

The pyramid form was popular in ancient Rome. As of late medieval times at least two such pyramids survived, but the Cestius pyramid is the only one that survives to the present day.

The adoption of the pyramidal shape for sepulchral monuments was popular during the Augustan period, in the context of cultural influences from Egypt. Many pyramidal tombs were built, between 40 and 50 meters high, of which only that of Gaius Cestius survives.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Romuli
 
This overview paper from a 2008 conference on the Bosnian pyramids provides a reasonably detailed description of Montevecchia's pyramidal hills. The report contains multiple photos.
Gabriela Lukacs, Mag.rer.soc.oec., graduate Vienna university Post graduate art +history university Siena, Italy
Participant of the excavations in Visoko, Bosnia since 2006
MONTEVECCHIA Pyramid Hills................. Summary 9 pages

Located about 40 km Northeast of Milan in Lombardy/Italy there is a small village with 3 pyramid shaped hills. Shape, orientation and alignment of these hills resemble the pyramids on the Giza plateau. This fact was discovered in 2003 by the Italian architect Vincenzo De Gregorio. He took aerial fotos of the pyramid hills with his balloon cam, the highest hill being 150 m, the other 2 hills approx.100 m and 50 m high. These assumed pyramids are now completely covered by dirt and vegetation and appear to be natural hills, but the possibility of something more led a Czech team of researchers to do an initial survey in 2003.

Their conclusion was that the Montevecchia “pyramids” should be called “Italian Giza” because of several identical facts with the Giza pyramids:
  • the pyramidal hills are aligned with the passing of Orion at the sunrise of the summer solstice.
  • The sides of all pyramids were aligned and were offset from the cardinal points by approximately 7 to 12 degrees northeast.
  • All three structures had an inclination of 42/43 degrees.
  • Pyramid hill Nr. 1 was estimated to have a base of 100 metres, with a height of 50 metres.
In total, three potential pyramids were surveyed, with one pyramid showing clear signs of stones worked into the structure, close to the surface. A platform with an oblong superstructure having a size of 18 by 9 metres was also discovered.

Gabriela Lukacs/Vienna and Nenad Djurdjević/Bergamo have undertaken several research trips to Montevecchia in 2007+2008. Our observations on site are as follows: ...
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FULL REPORT: http://icbp.ba/2008/documents/papers/icbp_paper_montevecchia_g_lukacs.pdf.pdf
 
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