Egyptian style pyramids discovered in a remote region of Uzbekistan!

Pravda ^ | 11:30 2002-06-19 | Yelena Kiseleva ( Translated by Vera Solovieva )

[RightWhale]

I wouldn't know, but the oldest lithic construction seem to be in the 10,000 year old range so far. It may go back 50,000 years, but even stone would have a lifetime. Just 2,000 years does a good weathering job on exposed stone.

[RobRoy]

>>My take is that a pyramid is so absolutely basic a form for building, that I'm only surprised that they aren't found everywhwere.<<

Yes, that is my take as well. It's like the wheel. Inevitably, all "successfull" cultures will end up with the "round" wheel. Those that have no wheel at all, or try to produce a square or triangular wheel cannot successfully carry eggs to market, and their civilization ultimately dies of malnutrition. But their meat may be more tender.

[eno_]

Yeah, I hope the whole "lost city" thing gets a lot less tinfoil. I suspect we had a lot of old civilizations that are lost for now because people don't have a good idea of how long stuff lasts.

I know Danny Hillis, and the whole millennium clock thing is fascinating.

[RightWhale]

Imagine if we could remove or see through the top 100 feet of dirt, sand, even water all over the planet, but leave made things in place. Or even the top 20 feet.

[hershey]

All the technical gadgets we've come up with in the past decade or so have helped us locate long hidden relics and ruins. It's amazing and fascinating. As students, we read about Rome or Greece, Egypt or Sumeria, but it's when we actually see everyday objects they handled or had in their homes...cups, amphora, pottery, mosaics...that history comes alive.

[tortoise]

Yes, like the idea that the Greeks and Archimedes invented geometry.

Among the most fascinating artifacts from neolithic Scotland i.e. predating Pythagoras, Euclid, and Plato by millenia, were detailed carved stone models of the Platonic Solids, plus a myriad of other polyhedra with up to 160 sides.

For a set of stone Scottish Platonic solids from 2000BC, see the following link:

http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/neolithic.html

[theFIRMbss]

>Egyptian style pyramids discovered in a remote region of Uzbekistan!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Awsome

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You are absolutely correct.

Considering the technology of the time, a pyramid was the ONLY tall imposing structure that COULD be built.

But let us let the pyramid power people have their fun, shall we?

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[numberonepal]

Afghanistan is considered by some (mainly afghanis) to be the site of the original Garden of Eden.

Mesepotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates is generally considered where Eden was. I've never heard the Afghan angle.