While in a trance, he spoke of a hall of records, where all knowledge from bygone cultures was hidden. He believed he was the reincarnation of a high priest who used to live on the island Atlantis. According to him, there is a passageway that parts from the right front paw of the Sphinx leading to the chamber.

the Hall of Records

Giovanni Battista Caviglia

The Great Pyramid of Giza was completed in 2560 BC. The Great Pyramid was more ancient to China’s first Emperor than China’s first Emperor is to you. Oh, the Pyramid’s, definitely. Mind you, there is not a Great Wall.

Almost a mile away, remnants of the earthen berm that the ancients built around Stonehenge are still visible. Estimated as being erected in 3100 BC, Stonehenge was already 500-1,000 years old before the first pyramid was built.

At around 12,000 years old, Göbekli Tepe in south-east Turkey has been billed as the world’s oldest temple. It is many millennia older than Stonehenge or Egypt’s great pyramids, built in the pre-pottery Neolithic period before writing or the wheel.

Here are the top 15 oldest buildings in America.

1. Acoma Pueblo. Also the oldest structure in New Mexico, Acoma Pueblo is a community built around 1000 AD.
2. Taos Pueblo.
3. Palace Of the Governors.
4. San Miguel Mission.
5. Fairbanks House.
6. Mission San Juan Capistrano.

Stone-built castles in the medieval sense were long outmoded in Europe by the time that settlement of North America began on a large scale; styles of government and war no longer required them. For the same reason, medieval-style castles are also not present in Canada.

Wales

Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina, 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m2) Châteauesque style mansion built 1889–95 for George Washington Vanderbilt II. It is the largest privately held home in the United States. It is a National Historic Landmark. Bishop Castle, Wet Mountains, Rye, Colorado, vicinity.