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[[File:pyramidofpower 1841.png|frame|[[Field of Dreams|If you build it, they will come.]].<ref>Clockwise from top left: ''[[EarthBound]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past]]'', ''[[Quest for Glory III]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]'', ''[[Ys]] IV: Mask of the Sun'', and ''[[Super Mario 64]]''</ref>]]

Quick, think of [[Ancient Egypt]]. What's the first thing that comes to mind? With 90% certainty, you're thinking pyramids.<ref>The other 10% of the time you are probably thinking of [[The Sphinx]].</ref> And why shouldn't you? The [[Pyramid Power|Great Pyramid of Giza]] was the tallest artificial structure on Earth for three and a half millennia and is the only extant example of the [[Seven Wonders of the World|Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]].

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For cases in which the historical pyramids have something unusual associated with them, see [[Pyramid Power]].

For cases where pyramid-shaped buildings show up in science fiction, see [[Futuristic Pyramid]].

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== [[Card Games]] ==

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* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh ~~Card~~ Game|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' cards "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Level_Limit_-_Area_B Level Limit - Area B]" and "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Level_Limit_-_Area_A Level Limit - Area A]" both have big pyramids in the background.

== [[Film]] ==

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* ''[[The Ancestral Trail]]'' has the Great Pyramid of Loktar plonked down in the western part of the continent, with no evidence of anything else Egpytesque.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s eponymous [[Doctor Who/Recap/S13/E03 Pyramids of Mars|Pyramids of Mars]].

* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': Hooo-boy, have we got pyramids... [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!!!]]

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

=== Board Games ===

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* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' has the Black Pyramid of Nagash, the first necromancer (and later responsible for the existence of vampires).

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* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' has the Necron Monolith, which is a floating pyramid [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|of doom]].

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=== [[Card Games]] ===

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* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' cards "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Level_Limit_-_Area_B Level Limit - Area B]" and "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Level_Limit_-_Area_A Level Limit - Area A]" both have big pyramids in the background.

=== Tabletop RPG ===

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''

** Adventure I3 ''Pharaoh''. The [[PC]]s explore an ancient pyramid to free a pharaoh's spirit so it can reach the afterlife.

** Adventure WG4 ''The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun''. The Temple is in the shape of a two-stepped pyramid.

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* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' has the Black Pyramid of Nagash, the first necromancer (and later responsible for the existence of vampires).

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* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' has the Necron Monolith, which is a floating pyramid [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|of doom]].

* In ''[[Spelljammer]]'' 'verse Ptah is one of widely known powers among the spheres, so of course there are early products of his (and the rest of the pantheon's) worshippers. So you may encounter 80' wide stony Flying Pyramids [[In Space]]—now mostly occupied by mummies and less respectasble [[Undead]].

* Chaosium's ''Stormbringer!/Elric!'' game. Temples to Goldar (one of the Lords of Law) are built in the shape of a pyramid.

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* The Shifting Sands track in ''[[SuperTuxKart]]'', where the racers even enter into a pyramid.

* Sophanem and Menaphos in ''[[RuneScape]]''

* When playing the Egyptians in [[Age of Mythology]], you'd obviously build like an ~~egyptian~~. That said, the developers have done quite some research on the topic so Pyramids aren't that prevalent.

* When playing the Egyptians in [[Age of Mythology]], you'd obviously build like an Egyptian. That said, the developers have done quite some research on the topic so Pyramids aren't that prevalent.

* [[Breath of Fire III]] has Angel Tower, which despite its name is a ziggurat (step-type) pyramid. Curiously, it is not located in the game's desert zone.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' has the Temple of the Ancients, although its ziggurat shape (and location in a forest/jungle) suggests the Cetra architecture was inspired, like the Yavin pyramids in ''[[Star Wars]]'', by the Mayans.

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== [[Real Life]] ==

* Pyramids have in fact been independently invented in many different times and places. (You don't have the technology to do reinforced concrete or steel-framed skyscrapers, but you want to build something Really ~~Big—piling~~ up the rocks in a shape that's larger on the bottom and slopes up to a more-or-less pointy top is the logical way to do it.) In addition to the Egyptians and the aforementioned [[Mayincatec|Mesoamericans]] (Mayans and Aztecs), [[wikipedia:Pyramid|pyramids and pyramid-like structures]] have been built by many different civilizations.

* Pyramids have in fact been independently invented in many different times and places. (You don't have the technology to do reinforced concrete or steel-framed skyscrapers, but you want to build something Really Big; piling up the rocks in a shape that's larger on the bottom and slopes up to a more-or-less pointy top is the logical way to do it.) In addition to the Egyptians and the aforementioned [[Mayincatec|Mesoamericans]] (Mayans and Aztecs), [[wikipedia:Pyramid|pyramids and pyramid-like structures]] have been built by many different civilizations.

** A slightly less rational, but still plausible reason is that Pyramids imitate the shape of mountains.

** The ancient Egyptian reasons, at least, were that the pyramids resembled both the Mound of Creation, the first land created by [[Egyptian Mythology|the gods]], and the rays of [[Big Good|Ra]].

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