While many are unaware of this, there is a Pyramid (now in ruins) in Greece referred to as the ‘Pyramid of Hellinikon ‘ which according to studies is older than the oldest Pyramid of ancient Egypt by at least 100 years (Djoser – 2620 B.C.) and predates by at least 170 years, the Great Pyramid Giza (Khufu – 2550 B.C.).

Whenever we hear the word ‘Pyramid’ we always jump in our minds to ancient Egypt, and their supermassive, majestic Pyramids.

However, despite the fact that Egypt is well-known for its three main pyramids at the Giza plateau, the truth is that there are thousands of pyramids scattered across the globe.

There are pyramids nearly on every continent on Earth. There are pyramids in America, in Europe, in Asia, and even in India.

And curiously, one of the European pyramids is located in Greece and is known as the pyramid of Hellenikon in Argos, Greece.

The Pyramid of Greece (now in ruins) was well described in ancient times and Pausanias—a Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the time of Roman emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius—documented the structure in his Description of Greece, referring to it as the Pyramid of Hellinikon close to Argos.

“On the way from Argos to Epidauria there is on the right a building made very like a pyramid, and on it in relief are wrought shields of the Argive shape.

Here took place a fight for the throne between Proetus and Acrisius; the contest, they say, ended in a draw, and a reconciliation resulted afterwards, as neither could gain a decisive victory.

The story is that they and their hosts were armed with shields, which were first used in this battle. For those that fell on either side was built here a common tomb, as they were fellow citizens and kinsmen.”—Pausanias: 2.25.

The Pyramid is extremely interesting for a number of reasons, but mainly because of its supposed age.

If reports are accurate, the Greek Pyramid could be older than the oldest Pyramid of ancient Egypt by at least 100 years (Djoser – 2620 B.C.) and predates by 170 years the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu – 2550 B.C.).

In 1938, archaeologists from the US placed the construction of the monument between 300 and 400 BCE.

In 1991, a different scientific team, led by Dr. I. Lyritzis of the Academy of Athens, concluded that the Pyramid of Hellinikon was built around 3000 BCE.

However, later research by the Academy of Athens and the University of Edinburgh placed the monument to around 2720 BCE.

Dating measurements were performed by the Laboratory of Archaeometry at Dimokritos Research Institute in Athens and by the Nuclear Dating Laboratory of the Department of Physics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

The number speak for themselves. If the dates of the construction of the Pyramid are correct, it would mean that his Greek Pyramid is OLDER than the Pyramid of Djoser in Egypt—considered the oldest of all Egyptian pyramids.

While incomparable in size to its Egyptian counterparts, the pyramid of Hellinikon has the shape of a tour with its external sides sloping and surrounding a rectangular building of total dimensions 7,03 by 9,07 m.

The ancient Pyramid was built from gray limestone of the area together with large blocks in a trapezoidal and partially polygonal system.

The Coricancha (in Quechua: Quri Kancha, ‘golden temple’) is a political, and religious Inca temple of the geographic center of the city of Cuzco, in Peru.

The word Coricancha (also written as Qorikancha) is formed by the union of two Quechua words: “Kori / Cori” which means gold and kancha / court, temple or enclosure.

According to researchers, the original name was “Intikancha”, and is related to the God Inti and the golden color of its interior, referring to the sun.

It is not clear exactly in what year the construction of the temple began, but it is speculated that it dates back from the period of the Ayamarcas.

In the year 1438, when assuming power the ninth Inca, Pachacuteq, remodeled the entire city, and later renamed the temple to Qorikancha (which is the current name).

According to the Inca conception, the Qorikancha was the religious, geographic and political center of Cusco, and was so imoprtant that Garcilaso de Vega and Cieza de León, describe it as the temple “covered in gold”: Its floors and walls, including the garden, had animals and plants of real size, made of pure gold.

The temple, the materials, and the technique are very similar to that of Sacsaywamán or Machu Picchu, except that here the Megalithic style is not so heavily presented. Here we see an imperial style with regular rigging in parallelepipeds; the predominant element is the andesite stone.

The remnants of Coricancha are considered a marvel of Incan architecture.

In fact, experts to this day are unsure as to how the ancient Incas managed to create such perfectly shaped walls.

Modern engineers say the precision of the stonework rivals that being produced today with advanced machining.

However, the Inca weren’t the only ancient civilization to achieve such building proficiency.

If we travel some 6,500 miles at the other side of the world, in Giza, Egypt, we see the same signature building techniques at the Valley Temple next to the Sphinx.

Coincidence? I wouldn’t say so. Rather the same blueprint.

Imagine for a second standing in front of the Sphinx temple in Egypt while observing the incredible ruins of the ancient temple. Then–imagine–you close your eyes and when you open then, you end up at the Coricancha temple in Cusco. The styles are so similar that if you did not know where you were standing at a precise moment, you couldn’t tell the difference between the two, due to the fact that the building styles of those two temples are eerily similar.

The similarities between the two temples tell a story that most of us have failed to hear.

Both temples feature incredible blocks fitted together so tightly that you cannot fit a single sheet of paper in between them. However, as noted by many researchers and authors, what makes these temples even more fascinating is the size of the stones used in their construction.

In fact, some of these blocks are so large that even engineers today would struggle to put them into position.

The limestone blocks at the Valley Temple are estimated to weigh around 200 tons each.

Somehow, the ancient builders managed to lift these massive stones and place them with incredible precision to hights of around 40 above the ground, or the height of a four-story building.

Interestingly, this was not merely accomplished at these two sites. There is ample evidence of similar sites around the globe.

Across the globe, ancient cultures chose repeatedly, to build similar awe-inspiring blocks fitted together with such a precision that modern-day engineers are left awestruck, and all of that using supermassive stones and most important, without the use of mortar.