Tepe-Cross Pyramid
Tepe-Cross
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE)·Middle Bronze Age·🇮🇹 Sicily, Italy
About
About Tepe-Cross Pyramid
Tepe-Cross Pyramid in Sicily, Italy is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) pyramid attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture. Systematically investigated through systematic survey and coring, it presents a principal enclosure with hydraulic works. Construction employs mudbrick on stone socle and demonstrates craft specialization. Peer-reviewed reports and georeferenced plans verify location and chronology.
Why it mattersKey Middle Bronze Age pyramid with stratified sequence and regional significance.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Ritual use and symbolic landscape
- 02Cause of abandonment and collapse
Theories
- 01Ritual landscape and ancestral veneration
- 02Centralized storage and redistribution (Cunliffe)
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 1686 BCE
- Period
- Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE)
- Culture
- Middle Bronze Age
- Purpose
- Necropolis and ritual
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 1686 BCE
Initial construction and primary occupation
c. 1239 BCE
Architectural refurbishment
c. 186 CE
Reoccupation and adaptation
1948
Rediscovery and systematic excavation
On the ground
Structures & features
36.0560° N · 12.9510° E · 2051 m · 3 mapped features
Granary Cluster
rampartBurial zone — tumuli
36.0540° N · 12.9502° ENecropolis Extension
courtyardHydraulic feature — aqueduct
36.0537° N · 12.9521° EEnclosure Wall
stelaOutlier feature with alignments
36.0581° N · 12.9518° E