The Pyramid of... Benben?
Just so you know, absolutely none of that is true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidion_of_Amenemhat_III
I don't know if the person who posted that is sincere or not, but plenty of people sincerely believe this sort of thing when it is posted on Facebook.
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The annoying thing is the ancient Egyptians actually did use meteorite iron, which we know because Tutankhamun was found with a knife made from it! If you’re so interested in Egyptians using meteors to build things then the real deal is RIGHT THERE! You don’t have to make shit up!
There’s also that greenish-glass like that was theorized to have been made by a meteorite impact in the desert.
Ah yes, here we go: Libyan desert glass
Ooh I haven’t heard of this or desert glass in general before, new rabbit hole! Thanks!
Enjoy!
It actually was black but it faded, honest.
And for people interested in the actual world as we understand it from SCIENCE, this: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/middleeast/egypt-pyramids-nile-river-lost-ahramat-branch-scn/index.html - A mapping of a lost branch of the Nile, which makes the location of the pyramids make so much more sense.
I heard of this this morning from another source of great science, namely Microbe.tv, and This Week in Virology, specifically episode 1115, Weekly Picks from Brianne: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1115/
I too heard about this from TWiV. I was very grateful to have finished every back episode of Twitter just before pandemic hit. I felt I was actually prepared for things with the most reliable source on virology available.
I didn't realize there were that many pyramids... 😬
How can it be both mystifying scientists for thousands of years, and recently unearthed? They dont even go out of their way to make sure they sound credible in the small paragraph they post. I mean you have to have some respect for art forgeries because if they are going to fake history, they go thru a lot of effort to get the details correct. These facebook ones are just like, I have 5 minutes while I am sitting here shitting, to make something up and get it out there!!
The bar is quite low when your target audience is elderly boomers with long term lead poisoning.
Yeah, half of the people posting in those groups have to be telling lies just to see who will pick it up and run with it.
Wait so is it a mysterious black stone, the ingredients of which are only found in space, or is it entirely made of iron?
it's actually made of space
Of course from an electron's perspective we are all predominantly made from empty space.
It's almost as if they are racists that believe no one but white people can build amazing architecture using complex mathematics and expert engineering with proper planning and enormous budgets.
Racism certainly plays a big part in the whole Atlantis/Ancient Aliens thing. When it was introduced by Madam Blavatsky, it was more blatant, but it's less so now, and the believers probably don't even think about it consciously.
But, as Milo "Minuminuteman" Rossi has pointed out in his debunking videos, the only European monument they can't believe that people didn't build was Stonehenge.
Or perhaps instead of race they’re timeists who think that before invention of modern technology it would have been hard to do such things.
I mean, it would have been much harder than with modern technology, but it's not impossible.
You say none of that is true, but it does, in fact, appear to be a black stone cut in pyramid shape with engravings.
But my uncle TimTom said it was true!
My uncle JoJo said it was true too!
My neighbors brothers uncle JimBob knows JoJo so I know it's true.
There's a little something to it, but yeah it seems their post is at least 90% wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benben
There's something to it in that the archaeologists who discovered it named that sort of thing a Benben stone after the mound of creation they are supposed to symbolize. I'd put that at more like 99% wrong but I'm willing to concede that they got the word Benben from something related to whatever the fuck they were trying to say.
In all fairness, I wasn't there when the archaeologists named it, and I have no idea why they named it that, but yeah it's called a Benben stone, they've been called that for a long time. Yeah it sounds silly, but that's probably the only correct word in their post. 🤷♂️
Yeah, but like I said to someone else, not really... it's like calling the Cleopatra's Needle "the Egyptian obelisk." I mean, yeah, it's an obelisk. But it's not THE obelisk.
Lemmy is the only place I've ever seen people reference Wikipedia so much, smh.
Why wouldn't we use our version of the great Library of Alexandria?
All the sources are literally linked beneath.
Then just link their sources. It's not rocket science. A lot of information on Wikipedia is misconstrued from the facts and intents present in their sources, although I doubt anybody has it out for Amenemhat the third specifically we should follow the principle on this subject.
Yeah hold on let me find a good source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
Are you saying that my source, on wikipedia being unreliable, is unreliable because it is wikipedia?
Not sure why you are being downvoted. shrug I'm glad to have Wikip cites, to go and explore.
Oh look more misinformation bullshit from a Facebook likewhore. Wow.
Lol I downvoted this before realizing it was insane people Facebook and read the text. Enjoy your upvote.
someone wants to restart the whole ancient egypt and aliens cycle
The actual mysteries are so interesting without making up stuff or bringing up the annunaki. Whoever built the original pyramids was smart as heck, knew the size of earth and probably spanned the globe yet there's like no record of what happened to them or their civilization. Then the ancient egyptians (that we actually know about) came along and were like imadethis.jpg. Source: some youtube videos.
Is this guerrilla marketing for some sort of Stargate reboot? Bring it on I say!
No. And also no.
(I'm tired of reboots.)
Indeed.
I'm tired of soulless, marketing-focus-group-designed bad reboots. Still waiting for a good one.
Would you count the Doctor Who that started in the 2000s to be a reboot?
I believe technically it is a continuation, not a reboot. To be a reboot it'd have to be a new universe, new "1st doctor."
I haven't seen enough of it to know and I also haven't seen the previous iterations.
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