Which came first Mayan or Egyptian pyramids?

This evidence includes the surviving written records of both cultures and many different scientific dating techniques to support back them up. The last Egyptian pyramid was built before 1290 BCE. The first Mayan pyramid was constructed after 600 BCE.



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Mesoamerican peoples built pyramids from around 1000 B.C. up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. (Egyptian pyramids are much older than American ones; the earliest Egyptian pyramid, the Pyramid of Djoser, was built in the 27 century BC).

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The Mayans and Egyptians fit in with many ofuniv~rsal religious themes. Both had a form of polytheistic belief, they believed that the four cardinal directions had important meaning to the flow of life, their world was flat and they were the center of it, they depended on the gods and the gods depended on them.

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The Mayan pyramids were built mostly between the 3rd and 9th century AD by the Maya, a Mesoamerican civilization that arose around 1500 BC. These pyramids are located in eastern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador and they vary in style and design.

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The oldest and largest known monument built by the Mayan civilisation has been found in Mexico. Called Aguada Fénix, it is a huge raised platform 1.4 kilometres long. Aguada Fénix was built around 1000 BC, centuries before the Maya began constructing their famous stepped pyramids.

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Most of the pyramids that are in Mexico, were built by Mesoamerican Ancient Civilizations such as the Toltecs, the Tarascan, the Maya, the Aztecs, and the Totonac.

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It was the Egyptians who built the pyramids.

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