Because dinosaur fossils were the basis for Chinese dragon legends.
If the pyramids at Caral, Peru aren't the oldest in the world, they're a close 2nd.
psssssssst! They all came from Atlantis!
Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders
"The great pyramids of Egypt provide a wonderful glimpse of the artistry, skill and imagination of the ancient world. But pyramids can be found in India, China, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and Ireland. In this provocative book, geologist Schoch (noted for his work in redating the Sphinx, which was recounted in his Voices of the Rocks) wonders how so many diverse cultures built such similar structures with similar purposes. Using geological, linguistic and geographical evidence, he contends that a protocivilization of pyramid-building peoples was driven out of its homeland, the Sundaland, which geologists believe connected Southeast Asia with Indonesia, by a rise in sea level caused by comet activity between 6000 and 4000 B.C. Fleeing their homeland, these peoples took their knowledge of pyramid building with them into Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Peru. Schoch hypothesizes that the pyramids were built to reach into the skies and to penetrate the mystery of the heavens, source of catastrophe. Schoch also asserts that the pyramids point to unity and symbolize the deep concerns shared by all humans. Schoch builds his engrossing case on geological details of the pyramid sites he has examined around the world. In the end, however, even he admits his evidence of a Sundaland protocivilization is speculative. As controversial as this book is bound to be, Schoch's evocation of the pyramids forcefully reminds us of their enduring power as monuments to the spirit of human creativity.
Yeh -- but those snake-bird gods were able to fly back and forth between them, probably accumulating a lot of frequent flyer miles in the process.
Plato was right!
Gott in himmel! Das ist gigantihugimongouseries!
They both were able to COUNT!
Stune me with a moose beeber; von Danegan was right!?!
Oh, and wouldn't the Mexican pyramids be more akin to Mesopotamian ziggurats?
and a few million Americans worship another feathered-serpent devil goddess....HILLARY
Meet Ganesh, the most popular diety in my neighborhood.
They're called anhingas and they act just as weird as they look.
Actually there are pyramids throughout the world. Just a relatively easy structure to build (with the Egyptian ones being why I say “relatively.”) If the Mexicans and Egyptians communicated, as the article implies, why are the pyramids completely different?
And this fascinates me as much as any other member of the Archaeological Institute of America, but why is it a Reuters news story? Haven’t we known this for a few hundred years already?
LOL, this is mentioned right after a list of similarities between the cultures.
Satan
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Probably a ‘race memory’ dating back to when dinosaurs started growing feathers and turning into birds. :-)
...and developed a 365-day calendar...
http://www.highdown.reading.sch.uk/highdown/pupil/time/calendars/360.html
“This 360 day calendar, like so many others, was changed during the 8th century B.C. to one of 365 days. The extra five days was simply added to the end of the year.”
Plutarch: “Hermes playing at draughts with the moon, won from her the seventieth part of each of her periods of illumination, and from all the winnings he composed five days, and intercalated them as an addition to the 360 days.”