History Main / PyramidPower

* The Alan Parsons Project poke fun at the concept with 1978's "Pyramania", with the cover of its parent album, ''Pyramid'', showing a copy of the aforementioned book by Flanagan.

* Done in the Nineties revival of ''TheTomorrowPeople''. The plot is that an immortal Egyptian pharoah is trying to recreate the circumstances required when the stars align to give him great power, which requires him to move a bunch of obelisks all over Europe (supposedly explaining why they were brought to London, Rome etc in the nineteenth century). The protagonists point out that this would mean he would have to have built a central focusing pyramid in the middle of them, in central London...they then look behind them and see the pyramidal top of the Canary Wharf Tower. Note this was years before it was used as the Torchwood Tower in ''DoctorWho''.

* The Tremere clan from VampireTheMasquerade is obsessed with this trope, incorporating pyramid symbiology into the design of their rigid organizational structure in hopes of attaining greater mystical power. [[BlackMagic It]] [[DysTopia doesn't]] [[WhoWantstoliveforever work]] [[ProperlyParanoid out]] [[ManipulativeBastard very]] [[UnderStatement well]].

However, due to a mixture of the distinctive geometrical shape and the immense labor required to build them, a lot of people have assumed there must be some special significance to the shape. Or that they were built by [[AncientAstronauts aliens]]. Predictably, this also shows up in fiction. During the [[TheSeventies 70s]] there was an actual fad about the pyramids serving as a focus of cosmic energies ('pyramid power') and that resting in houses or boxes shaped like them could grant many physical and mental benefits.

There is also the incorrect belief that the Egyptian Pyramids were built by slaves; in actuality they were build by serfs such as farmers who had no work to do during the winter months. It was still still quite a feat of engineering and patience, though.

In the distant past, many civilisations built pyramids as monuments. The most famous are those of [[BuildLikeAnEgyptian Egypt]], followed by the Mayan pyramids in Mexico. They have also been found in Sudan, Iran, and China. The reason for the pyramid shape is quite simple and practical - 80% of a pyramid's mass is in the lower half, meaning that it is the most practical shape to support a building of that height. It's the form of stone building most likely to still be standing in a recognizable shape when the archaeologists show up a thousand years late to the party.

However, due to a mixture of the distinctive geometrical shape and the immense labour required to build them, a lot of people have assumed there must be some special significance to the shape. Or that they were built by [[AncientAstronauts aliens]]. Predictably, this also shows up in fiction.

In the distant past, many civilisations built pyramids as monuments. The most famous are those of [[BuildLikeAnEgyptian Egypt]], followed by the Mayan pyramids in Mexico. They have also been found in Sudan, Iran, and China. The reason for the pyramid shape is quite simple - 80% of a pyramid's mass is in the lower half, meaning that it is the most practical shape for a building of that height. It's the form of stone building most likely to still be standing in a recognizable shape when the archaeologists show up a thousand years late to the party.

However, due to a mixture of the distinctive shape and the immense labour required to build them, a lot of people have assumed there must be some special significance to the shape. Or that they were built by [[AncientAstronauts aliens]]. Predictably, this also shows up in fiction.

* In the ''{{Civilization}}'' series of games, the Pyramids are one of the most recurring World Wonders available in pretty much every game with an awesome effect. Initially they functioned as a granary in every one of your cities for the rest of the game (saving time in build orders and letting your cities grow faster right from the get go), where as in Civ 4, they unlocked every political civic right away (and for the rest of the game) without having to research the required tech first (allowing the player to use more advanced civics like Republic or Police State well before anyone else is even close to the tech)

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/Pyramids'', the pyramids act as "time dams", preserving the Old Kingdom unchanging for thousands of years. They don't sharpen razor blades, though ... they take them back in time to before they were blunt.

* {{Futurama}} has an inversion. When the cast lands on an ancient Egypt themed planet, it's revealed that the Egyptians traveled to space and built pyramids on alien planets.

* In ''PhineasAndFerb'', Doofenshmirtz thought that the pyramids of Egypt was built by aliens, when the Egyptians used music to command the aliens.

* The Alan Parsons Project poke fun at the concept with 1978's "Pyramania"

* TheAlanParsonsProject poke fun at the concept with 1978's "Pyramania"

* When [[TheTropeKid Death The Kidd]] is introduced in ''SoulEater'' he fights mummies in a pyramid. [[spoiler: [[WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings He ends up destroying it by accident]] along with the MonsterOfTheWeek in a fit of SuperOCD induced [[NoKillLikeOverkill blasting]]]].

In the distant past, many civilisations built pyramids as monuments. The most famous are those of Egypt, followed by the Mayan pyramids in Mexico. They have also been found in Sudan, Iran, and China. The reason for the pyramid shape is quite simple - 80% of a pyramid's mass is in the lower half, meaning that it is the most practical shape for a building of that height. It's the form of stone building most likely to still be standing in a recognizable shape when the archaeologists show up a thousand years late to the party.

* In the Civilization series of games, the Pyramids are one of the most recurring World Wonders available in pretty much every game with an awesome effect. Initially they functioned as a granary in every one of your cities for the rest of the game (saving time in build orders and letting your cities grow faster right from the get go), where as in Civ 4, they unlocked every political civic right away (and for the rest of the game) without having to research the required tech first (allowing the player to use more advanced civics like Republic or Police State well before anyone else is even close to the tech)

* The Millenium Puzzle in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' was shaped like a pyramid.

In the distant past, many civilisations built pyramids as monuments. The most famous are those of Egypt, followed by the Mayan pyramids in Mexico. They have also been found in Sudan, Iran, and China. The reason for the pyramid shape is quite simple - 80% of a pyramid's mass is in the lower half, meaning that it is the most practical shape for a building of that height.