• Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run
    35·
    6 months ago

    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/

    • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
      4·
      6 months ago

      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.

  • HorreC@kbin.social
    31·
    6 months ago

    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!!

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
    271·
    6 months ago

    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.

  • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    6 months ago

    Wait so is it a mysterious black stone, the ingredients of which are only found in space, or is it entirely made of iron?

  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
    192·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      6 months ago

      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.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      53·
      6 months ago

      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.

  • Colonel Panic@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    6 months ago

    You say none of that is true, but it does, in fact, appear to be a black stone cut in pyramid shape with engravings.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      6 months ago

      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.

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
        51·
        6 months ago

        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. 🤷‍♂️

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
          72·
          6 months ago

          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.

    • FiniteBanjo
      212·
      6 months ago

      Lemmy is the only place I’ve ever seen people reference Wikipedia so much, smh.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
        101·
        6 months ago

        Why wouldn’t we use our version of the great Library of Alexandria?

        All the sources are literally linked beneath.

        • FiniteBanjo
          115·
          6 months ago

          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.

  • Emerald@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    Lol I downvoted this before realizing it was insane people Facebook and read the text. Enjoy your upvote.

  • Pothetato@lemmy.world
    128·
    6 months ago

    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.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    41·
    6 months ago

    Is this guerrilla marketing for some sort of Stargate reboot? Bring it on I say!