1.   Beside a giant black pyramid pouring light from its apex?

2.   It was dogged by jokes about its cartoonish look and its central set piece, a giant mechanical pyramid.

3.   The barracks are near Teotihuacan, the pre-Columbian city whose giant pyramids are a major tourist attraction.

4.   The new finding suggests that Caral, a large city with giant pyramids of its own, may already have been decades old at the time.