Las Vegas (KVVU/Gray News) – A monolith near Las Vegas was discovered near Las Vegas, about eight months after the next in the area.
A monolith appeared on Friday morning on the site of the Seven Magic Mountains, a public art installation in the Ivanpah Valley, about 10 miles south of Las Vegas.
The Nevada Museum of Art, which the installation produced co-produced, said that the monolith was installed overnight without permission. You said you don't know who installed it and are working to remove it.
The monolith seems to be about 12 feet and has a QR code along a page that is assumed that it is involved in a cryptocurrency website.
This is not the first time that a monolith was discovered in Las Vegas Valley.
A monolith was seen in June 2024 near Gass Peak in the National Wildlife Refuge desert. It was immediately removed with the support of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Shortly after this discovery, another monolith was found near the Horsetooth reservoir in the north of Colorado. It was never known whether the two monoliths were connected.
Monoliths have been discovered in the USA and the world for several years.
In 2020 a monolith was discovered in the desert in Utah, another at the height of a path found in California and a third near Albuquerque, New Mexico, was found. One was found in Romania and in a Turkish World Heritage Site, although this was discovered by the Turkish government as a gimmick.
A large part of the monoliths were destroyed or removed shortly after their discovery, with some vandal concerns about the effects of foot traffic to see that the curiosity could have on its surroundings.
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