Since the beginning of time, man has emphasized his power by building monuments. None of the world's structures inspires as much admiration as the pyramids. Pyramids - in the deserts of Egypt and the Middle East, in the jungles of Mexico and in the American prairies - were built of stone as tombs of rulers or places of sacrificial rituals. They are silent witnesses of bygone times and extinct civilizations of antiquity. The secret of the construction of the Egyptian pyramids in Giza, the Aztec Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico, the Mayan pyramids as a reminder of bloody rituals, the ziggurats in Babylonia - all this in the British documentary PYRAMIDS from the series MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENT AGE.