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originally posted by: Flavian
Firstly, i apologise for the source (Daily Mail). I have tried to find others but they are all a bit wishy washy to be fair! That said, the full report isn't due out for a bit yet so i fully expect more sources to become available in time.
built more than 3,000 years ago in Saryarke for a local 'pharaoh', a leader of a local mighty tribe dating to late Bronze epoch,' said archeologist Viktor Novozhenov.
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: Flavian
Firstly, i apologise for the source (Daily Mail). I have tried to find others but they are all a bit wishy washy to be fair! That said, the full report isn't due out for a bit yet so i fully expect more sources to become available in time.
Not a good source... because... in spite of the breathless prose, it's Bronze Age. Look at the text:
built more than 3,000 years ago in Saryarke for a local 'pharaoh', a leader of a local mighty tribe dating to late Bronze epoch,' said archeologist Viktor Novozhenov.
3,000 years ago is (drum roll) 1,000 BC.
Pyramids were built in 2,500 BC. Nearer to 5,000 years ago.
No, That Ancient Mausoleum Is Not the 'World's 1st Pyramid'
The discovery of a 3,000-year-old pyramid-shaped mausoleum in Kazakhstan has gone viral over the past 24 hours, with several media outlets proclaiming the structure to be the world's first pyramid. But archaeologists say the structure, which contains a series of five walls that gradually get higher toward the center, is not nearly as old as these news reports claim.
The mausoleum is 6.6 feet (2 meters) high and about 49 by 46 feet (15 by 14 m) long, said Viktor Novozhenov, an archaeologist with the Saryarka Archaeological Institute at Karaganda State University in Kazakhstan who helped excavate the mausoleum. "It's made from stone, earth and fortified by slabs in the outer side," Novozhenov told Live Science. A number of media outlets that reported the discovery did not include the size of the structure, which, compared to Egypt's royal pyramids, is very small.
While the exact age of the structure is uncertain, it likely was built during the late Bronze Age, more than 3,000 years ago, Novozhenov said. This is more than 1,000 years after the Egyptians built the step pyramid of Djoser, Novozhenov said, so it is not the "world's first pyramid."