Piramide di Caio Cestio, Italy

The other mysterious and interesting pyramid is located in Rome. The Cestio Pyramid, built in the first century BC, has a very interesting location. In antiquity it lay on the crossroads two important ways. The busy motorways are still close to the tourist attraction, so it is very popular among travelers. The Pyramid is an ancient Roman mausoleum built for the judge Gai Cestio Epulon. The concrete served as the main construction material in the construction of the pyramid. To make the exterior appearance of the building more beautiful, the pyramid walls were covered with marble and brick.

This structure is also characterized by the impressive size. The length of its baseline is about 30 meters, and the height - 36.4 meters. One of the main features of the pyramid is its unusual structure, inside the building is the crypt of the extension of nearly 6 meters, which ends in a small funeral room. For centuries the pyramid was disregarded. The first researchers visited them only in the 17th century.

Besides the half-troubled, they found a few memorial announcements about the great deeds of the judge. The explorers have also written down their memoranda on one of the room walls. For more than one and a half thousand years one could not find the entrance into the pyramid, which was carefully masked. The impossibility to look into the building has created a lot of the interesting legends. Some inhabitants of Rome still believe today that the secret tomb Rems - the founder of the city is located in the pyramid. Next - Chinese Pyramids