Are there pyramids or mounds in the United States?

The construction of millions of ancient monuments of earth, found all over South, Central, and North America; especially in the Mississippi River Delta of the United States, is a historical and scientific fact. Many Americans have grown up across this land with the knowledge of so-called “Indian Mounds” or Effigy earthworks” near their hometowns and birthplaces.

As with other continents, the mounds and pyramids of North America vary greatly. It could be that humankind has a primal need to build fake mountains, and that there are absolutely no connections between these sites. Or perhaps size and shape are irrelevant, and location is everything, and the guidelines for their placement was once universally known.

Far from the dry and desolate deserts of Egypt, several pyramids can be found throughout the United States. Some are an overt homage to the Northern African country and its identifiable architecture. .Just east of St. Louis, near Collinsville, Illinois is the largest earth mound in the western hemisphere. It is 30 metres high and dates back to 1100-1400 AD.

The largest of these mounds, Monk’s Mound covers 16 acres; it rests on a base 1,037 feet long and 790 feet wide, with a total volume of approximately 21,690,000 cubic feet, a base and total volume greater than that of the pyramid of Khufu, the largest in Egypt. In all the world, only the pyramids at Cholula and Teotihuacan in central Mexico surpass the Cahokia pyramid in size and total volume.