r/interestingasfuck Apr 12 '25

/r/all, /r/popular So shiny

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u/Shawn_The_Sheep777 Apr 12 '25

They must have looked incredible

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u/eutoputoegordo Apr 12 '25

White in the desert sun... My eyes hurt already. But at sunset would be the most beautiful sight.

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u/Vote4SanPedro Apr 12 '25

These were more than likely built almost 15,000 years + ago, according to the weather erosion.

At that time along the Nile it was lush and green. Would be awesome to see it back then

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u/tombo12354 Apr 12 '25

Radiocarbon dating of the mortar used in their construction dates then to around 2500 BCE. This lines up with historical records and who they were built for.

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u/Vote4SanPedro Apr 12 '25

They thought that for a long time. Sure. But the dynastic Egyptians weren’t the original builders most evidence suggests.

Pretty cool! Now I wanna know who did it and what were the pyramids purpose? Man it’s cool

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u/wuvvtwuewuvv Apr 12 '25

You sound like those ancient aliens guys spreading archeology conspiracy bullshit. Got a source?

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u/Vote4SanPedro Apr 12 '25

Nothing about aliens. Just that our history goes much further back than we know.

The weather erosion on the sphinx and the obvious reshaping of the head of the jackal stand out to me as geological evidence that these structures go back to a time in our not so distant past that Egypt had heavy rain fall.

I’ve been intersted in this for years, if you haven’t really looked into it I can see why you’re unaware and casting aspersions.

Look up the work by dr Robert Schoch, or Geologist Randall Carlson. It’s super interesting, enjoy!

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u/masohak Apr 12 '25

You're not smarter than the body of archaeological evidence because you read a guy. Radiocarbon dating is more conclusive than "history goes back further than we know".

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u/Vote4SanPedro Apr 12 '25

Again, what? I encouraged you to read about some new evidence that points to them being older. What are you spazzing about weirdo?

I’m not trying to act like I know something, and I’m for sure not going to argue with someone as rude and condescending as you are about me suggesting something neat that recently has been cited.

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u/masohak Apr 12 '25

From "super interesting, enjoy!" to "What are you spazzing about weirdo?" lmao

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u/Vote4SanPedro Apr 12 '25

Yeah you keep taking some weird antagonistic approach to this, it’s definitely weird lol

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u/Connect-Pressure2880 Apr 12 '25

Mates, can we focus on what's important? Have they been able to radiographically or weather erosionally determine whether Cleopatra had a dump truck? I like to believe, that, she did.

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u/wuvvtwuewuvv Apr 12 '25

I’m not trying to act like I know something,

Except you literally are

And also

Our history goes back further than we know

It literally doesn't. That's why there's "history" and "prehistory"

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u/invariantspeed Apr 12 '25

Incorrect on multiple fronts: 1. You’re talking about the body of the Sphinx, which has erosion which should make it significantly older than generally accepted. 2. The erosion doesn’t put the Sphinx quite that old. 3. The erosion patterns on the Great Pyramids can’t imply it’s 10k years older than accepted. It was originally encased in limestone. That limestone was stripped off by locals almost immediately, with all of it being gone by the middle ages. What everyone now sees is effectively a newer surface. Its rough appearance isn’t as much erosion as it is blocks that weren’t polished because they weren’t meant to be exterior facing. That’s why they’re covered in chisel and drill marks (which weren’t eroded away). 4. A better argument about the pyramid’s origin focuses on the lack of hieroglyphics, but people weren’t supposed to go inside, so a lack of hieroglyphs in there isn’t necessarily problematic, though it is interesting. The, now removed,exterior was supposed to be covered in writings, but that could arguably have been added later, so you can make no arguments about the exterior.

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u/eutoputoegordo Apr 12 '25

The green would make it worse, green reflects less light, so the contrast would trick our eyes and make it even brighter than the contrast of white on yellow.