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Europe England Silbury Hill, Wiltshire has been carbon-dated at 2660 years BC, the same era as the Giza pyramids.� It contains an estimated 340,000 cubic metres of chalk and earth, rising to a height of 39.6 metres.� The base of the monument is 167m� in diameter and it is perfectly round. The flat top is 30m across.� It is part of a sequence of ancient sites in the area that are in alignment. Despite its external appearance, this is actually a step pyramid, consisting of six, six metre high steps.� The steps are walled with blocks of chalk, which easily deteriorates when left exposed.� Consequently the builders preserved it, by covering it with earth and grass. Excavations have revealed that it is not a burial mound. This is just a small portion of my online book, Survive 2012 - a look into possible ways our world might end, and how to survive. Available in bookstores sometime before 2012, fingers-crossed... Ireland Near Drogheda, 45 kilometres north of Dublin on the east coast of Ireland, exists a concentration of standing stones, earthworks and passage graves.� One of these, Newgrange, is the largest pre-historic structure in Ireland - and one of the oldest in the world.� It dates back to 3250 BC. It appears that we have drifted a long way from what might be defined as a pyramid.� This egg-shaped mound of pebbles was once 14 metres in height with a diameter of 76 metres - hardly a massive monument compared to the largest pyramids, but still more than a days work.� Like Silbury Hill it has no straight sides, and appears not to point to any cardinal directions, astronomical events or other structures. But if you venture inside, on the right day of the year, something magical happens. Like the Egyptian pyramids, Newgrange contains a passage and chambers.� These were constructed using giant slabs of stone, and then buried under a mound of pebbles.� At the end of an 18 metre long, one metre wide passage are three chambers.� The roof above them, although not required to withstand as much weight, uses the same corbelled design as the pyramids in Egypt (good pic here).� At dawn on the midwinter solstice, the suns rays shine through a special window above the passage entrance, down the passage and illuminated the centre of the chambers. Precisely and deliberately. �It isn't so big, yet has much in common with other pyramids, especially those in Egypt.� Is it's location of any importance? We'll check on that soon. Canary Islands The Canary Islands are a popular solution to the location of Atlantis, based on their location west of the Mediterranean, and their mountainous terrain - they are part of a volcanic archipelago with marine trenches as deep as 3,000 metres and mountains as high as 3,718 meters above sea level. Archaeological findings suggest that the original inhabitants were Berbers who arrived from north Africa around 200 B.C. However, some early navigators reported the Canarians as being a race of tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed people, perhaps suggesting a northern European (or Atlantean) origin. � The Canary Islands were part of the route Columbus took to the Americas - he stopped in Tenerife for provisions in 1492. Dozens more photos here The six pyramids in Tenerife are quite small, like training exercises for those in Central America (one could almost suggest that it was Columbus that built them!).� They are found near Guimar, a town on the eastern shore of Tenerife Island, about 40 kilometers (24 miles) south of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.� Long dismissed by locals as mere piles of rubble, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl turned up and declared that they were indeed pyramids, not unlike those in Tucume, Peru that he had been studying.� Only a small study [i] has been of them to date, with these aspects being ascertained: There are six step pyramids, reaching a maximum height of about 12 metres.� They are rubble-filled, with facings of black volcanic stone, and are the result of multiple episodes of construction.� The main complex of three pyramids were found to be astronomically orientated with the sunset of...