Montevecchia pyramids
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Overview
About this site
Overview
Montevecchia pyramids is an other / unclassified in Lecco, Italy. It lies at 45.7284° N, 9.3701° E.
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Montevecchia pyramids
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The Atlas uses the heading "other" for stone monuments that fit none of its other types, and the same article serves for underground chambers that have no regional article. The records are varied. Many are ziggurats, Egyptian temples and pyramids, and Maya and Andean sites, which are treated in their own articles. What remains is a scatter of single sites in many countries whose descriptions do not allow a closer classification. The regional background, “Other prehistoric stone monuments”, is given below.
Dating
No date has been published for this site.
Setting
No other recorded monument lies within 10 km. The nearest is Stele funeraria di Casalpoglio, 96.2 km to the south-east. In Lecco, Italy, 1 of the 1 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Stele funeraria di Casalpoglio (96.2 km south-east, stele); Infernòt Carlini (111.4 km south-west, hypogeum); Parc la Mutta (119.6 km north, stone row); Monumento ai caduti di Propata (130.4 km south, stele).
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No heritage designation is recorded for the site.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Other prehistoric stone monuments
The Atlas uses the heading "other" for stone monuments that fit none of its other types, and the same article serves for underground chambers that have no regional article. The records are varied. Many are ziggurats, Egyptian temples and pyramids, and Maya and Andean sites, which are treated in their own articles. What remains is a scatter of single sites in many countries whose descriptions do not allow a closer classification.
Several of these are underground. A hypogeum is literally an "underground" temple or tomb, often with niches for cremated remains or loculi for buried remains. An early example is found at the Minoan Bronze Age site of Knossos on Crete, a beehive-shaped vault cut into soft rock. The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni in Paola, Malta, is the oldest example of a prehistoric hypogeum, with its earliest phase dated to 3600 to 3300 BCE. It is a complex of underground chambers, halls and passages covering about 500 square metres on three levels, partly carved to imitate temple architecture and containing extensive prehistoric art.
A rock-cut tomb is cut into an existing rock formation, usually a cliff or sloping rock face, and was a common burial form for the wealthy in several parts of the world. Famous clusters are in Egypt, Iran, Lycia in Turkey, Petra in Jordan and Sicily. Phrygian rock-cut tombs such as the Midas monument date to about 700 BCE, and Etruscan ones to about 500 BCE.
The general rule for these records is that the type tells you how a monument was made, not who made it or when. Dating is taken from the source for each site where a source gives one, and otherwise left as a broad range.
When visiting, read the site's own description first, since the Atlas can offer only a general frame.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Megalith, Wikipedia: Hypogeum, Wikipedia: Rock-cut tomb, Wikipedia: Stele · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Where it stands
Italy
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- Coordinates
- 45°43′42″ N, 9°22′12″ EFor a GPS or map app: 45.72837, 9.37011
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Nearby
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Sources
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Around this place
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Compiled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a regional background article based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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