Questions tagged [pyramids]
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Are these 25,000 year old pyramids in Indonesia and/or the Kola Peninsula?
This image seems to be doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment, purporting to be an ancient pyramid either in Indonesia or the Kola peninsula in Russia. Is there any evidence that it is an artificial pyramid?
The article linked to the Facebook…
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Are there three pyramids in Antarctica?
A story from an Illuminati conspiracy site has become a semi popular meme on Facebook:
Three ancient pyramids have been discovered in the Antarctic by a team
of American and European scientists. Two of the pyramids were
discovered about 16…
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Were the Egyptian pyramids wireless power stations?
This video states many claims, among others:
the pyramids were built to create "wireless electricity"
electricity was created by "aquifers" - some mechanism based on water flowing underground
"negative ions" were transferred to the ionosphere,…
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Does a 7000 year old ostrich eggshell held at the Nubian Museum depict a drawing of ancient Egyptian pyramids? If so, when was the drawing drawn?
There is a conspiracy theory doing the rounds on the internet that a 7000 year old ostrich eggshell held at the Nubian Museum depicts a drawing of ancient Egyptian pyramids.
Curiosmos
An ostrich egg, dating back around 7,000 years, allegedly…
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Were slaves involved in the building of the Pyramids of Giza?
The claim: Paid, skilled workers built the pyramids without the use of slave labor.
Relevant links:
Hawass: ‘The Great Pyramids were not built by slaves’
“Linking building the Great Pyramids to slavery is a comical thing to say,” replied Zahi…
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Which are the oldest pyramids?
It seems there are at least a few contenders for the title of oldest known pyramids, including:
Egypt
Bosnia
Brazil
Peru
Egypt
The earliest known Egyptian pyramids are found at Saqqara, northwest of Memphis. The earliest among these is the…
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Is there an alignment between Giza pyramid complex and Orion's Belt?
The following pictures which are circulating online:
There is no original source of these images which I could found, but you can try reverse image lookup to find the copies of it.
Are these pictures genuinely correct in terms of the visible…
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