Did you know that there are some interesting pyramids in Arizona? Here are two examples:

The Mausoleum of Arizona's first governor, George W. P. Hunt, is located at Papago Park in Phoenix.

The mausoleum of Charles Poston, first delegate to the Arizona Territory, is in Florence, Arizona.

TEMPLES

Each pyramid had a mortuary temple built of stone and located on the north side. The entrance was through a pylon or gateway built of two large rectangular towers with slanted walls. Oriented to east and receiving the first rays of the rising sun, the pylon was a gateway to heaven.

The Egyptian temple was rectangular and typically had three sections: an open colonnaded courtyard, asanctuary, and a hypostyle hall - which means "supported by many columns." Walls were incised and painted. Above is the Temple of Isis at Philae with pylon gateway.

THE TEMPLE OBELISK

On each side of the gateway was a type of menhir called an obelisk. These tall and tapering four-sided columns were capped with a pyramid shape encased in gold. Painstakingly carved out of a single block of granite,

they were dedicated to the sun god and inscribed with hieroglyphics and the name of the pharaoh. When Egypt fell to Rome in 30 B.C., the Roman Emperors carted off hundreds of objects including several obelisks. In fact, there are more obelisks in Rome than in Egypt. An obelisk that stood before the Temple of the Sun is now in New York's Central Park. It was acquired in 1881.

Obelisk and pylon at Luxor