"According to science" mankind has been around for 200,000 years, but i can't help but wonder why they waitied until just 5000 years ago to start building stuff and why they started building the same giant stuff all over the world?
Curious ....... very curious
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World's oldest pyramids are discovered
David Keys Archaeology Correspondent
Tuesday, 19 November 1996
Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest pyramids - on the Atlantic coast of southern Brazil. Like the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico, the South American ones seem to have been built for religious purposes. Some contain hundreds of human burials, complete with spectacular grave goods - including stone plaques, shell breast plates and beautifully made stone birds, fish, whales and other animals.
But although the functions of the Brazilian and Egyptian pyramids were to some extent the same, there was certainly no contact between ancient Egypt and Brazil, and the concept of building pyramids was invented quite independently in both places.
Dating from 3000BC, the oldest of the Brazilian pyramids predate the earliest Egyptian example by several hundred years. The construction techniques were also markedly different, each Egyptian pyramid being built in one operation, while the Brazilian ones were each built in several phases, possibly over many decades or even centuries.
World's oldest pyramids are discovered - News - The Independent
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