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Tallest pyramids and ancient monuments in the world

Each height here belongs to one named structure, shown in the note on each entry. The Pyramids of Giza lead with the Great Pyramid at its present 138.5 m, down from about 146 m before the capstone and casing went; the Red Pyramid at Dahshur follows at 104 m. Some figures are originals, such as the 62.5 m of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.

#SiteCountryHeight
1 Pyramids of Giza Egypt 139 m
2 Dahshur Pyramids Egypt 104 m
3 Tonina Mexico 71 m
4 Meidum Pyramid Egypt 65 m
5 Saqqara Egypt 63 m
6 Incekaya Aqueduct Turkey 60 m
7 Aqar Quf Ziggurat (Dur-Kurigalzu) Iraq 52 m
8 Mount Nemrut Turkey 49 m
9 Pont du Gard France 49 m
10 El Lahun Pyramid of Senusret II Egypt 49 m
11 Calakmul Mexico 45 m
12 Huaca del Sol Peru 41 m
13 Xunantunich Belize 40 m
14 Pyramid of Cestius Italy 37 m
15 Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania Algeria 32 m
16 Tour Magne France 32 m
17 Porta Nigra Germany 29 m
18 Aqueduct of Segovia Spain 29 m
19 Caral Peru 28 m
20 Les Ferreres Aqueduct (Pont del Diable) Spain 27 m
21 Serapeum and Pompey’s Pillar Egypt 27 m
22 Huaca Pucllana Peru 22 m
23 San Andres El Salvador 20 m
24 Zaghouan Aqueduct Tunisia 20 m
25 Huaca Huallamarca Peru 19 m
26 Nuraghe Santu Antine Italy 17 m
27 Tiwanaku Bolivia 17 m
28 Altun Ha Belize 16 m
29 Timgad and the Arch of Trajan Algeria 12 m
30 Standing Stones of Stenness United Kingdom 5 m

Pyramids of Giza

Giza, Egypt

The Pyramids of Giza are the three great royal pyramids and the Sphinx on a desert plateau at the edge of Cairo, built…

65 tickets & tours

Dahshur Pyramids

Dahshur, Egypt

Dahshur is the royal cemetery south of Cairo where King Sneferu built the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid around 2600…

10 tickets & tours

Tonina

Ocosingo, Mexico

Tonina is a Maya city in the highlands of Chiapas, 13 km east of Ocosingo, whose acropolis climbs seven terraces to…

3 tickets & tours

Meidum Pyramid

Beni Suef, Egypt

The Meidum Pyramid, about 72 km south of Cairo on the edge of the desert near al-Wasta, was the first attempt to build…

No online ticket

Saqqara

Saqqara, Egypt

Saqqara is the vast burial ground of ancient Memphis, 30 km south of Cairo, where the Step Pyramid of Djoser stands as…

23 tickets & tours

Incekaya Aqueduct

Safranbolu, Turkey

The Incekaya Aqueduct is a stone bridge of six arches spanning the Tokatli Canyon about 7 km north of Safranbolu,…

No online ticket

Mount Nemrut

Kahta, Turkey

Mount Nemrut is a 2,150-metre summit in south-eastern Turkey crowned by the tomb sanctuary of King Antiochus I of…

15 tickets & tours

Pont du Gard

Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France

The Pont du Gard is the three-tiered Roman aqueduct bridge over the river Gardon near Remoulins in southern France,…

9 tickets & tours

Calakmul

Calakmul, Mexico

Calakmul is the great Maya capital of the Snake Kingdom, deep in the rainforest of southern Campeche, 35 km from the…

9 tickets & tours

Huaca del Sol

Trujillo, Peru

The Huaca del Sol, near Trujillo on the north coast of Peru, is the largest adobe pyramid built in the pre-Columbian…

No online ticket

Not every entry is a single building. The 71 m at Toniná is the Acropolis, seven terraces stacked up a hillside above the Great Plaza, and the 49 m of Mount Nemrut is an artificial tumulus of stone chips. Bridges count too: the three tiers of the Pont du Gard reach 48.8 m. Among the Maya pyramids, Structure 2 at Calakmul (45 m) and El Castillo at Xunantunich (40 m) can still be climbed.

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