World's Largest Pyramid Found....in Central America

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Shogun PaiN said:
More like -

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Penny?
 
Meus Renaissance said:
Interesting that we have pyramids, something until recently exclusively associated with Ancient Egypt, on almost every continent on Earth

Not really, there's only one way to make large-tall stone structures, otherwise they'd just collapse under the sheer weight.
 
Ether_Snake said:
If they just found it, why is there a wooden platform and stairs going to the top?:p
They most likely didn't realize its a pyramid, most likely just a rocky hill.
 
Yeah, I think CNN are being assholes with this one. It looks like they've been working on it for a very long time. :P

The creation depiction is kinda neato though.
 
Ether_Snake said:
If they just found it, why is there a wooden platform and stairs going to the top?:p


From wiki


El Mirador was first discovered in 1926, and was photographed from the air in 1930, but the remote site deep in the jungle had little more attention paid to it until Ian Graham spent some time there making the first map of the area in 1962.[citation needed] A detailed investigation was begun in 1978 with an archaeological project under the direction of Dr. Bruce Dahlin (Catholic University of America) and Dr. Ray Matheny (Brigham Young University). Dahlin's work focused primarily on the bajo swamps and mapping, while Matheny's team focused primarily on excavations in the site center and architecture. This project ended in 1983.

In 2003, Dr. Richard D. Hansen, a Senior Scientist from Idaho State University, initiated major investigation, stabilization, and conservation programs at El Mirador with a multi-disciplinary approach, including staff and technical personnel from 52 universities and research institutions from throughout the world. By August 2008, the team had published 168 scientific papers,[citation needed] and produced 474 technical reports and scientific presentations as well as documentary films in the History Channel, National Geographic, the Learning Channel, BBC, ABC's 20/20 and Good Morning America, 60 Minutes (Australia), and the Discovery Channel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mirador


CNN doesnt report news. If they did, the puerto rico fire would have been on TV
 
Now I have to wait for Graham Hancock to investigate so I can learn about THIS series of pyramids past astronomical alignments!
 
Tideas said:
i wonder...why a triangular shape. i mean, it's not like egypt and south america shared technology.

So why pointy shape toward sky?

I know. I'm waiting for them to find a reverse pyramid with a small base and gets bigger as you go up.
 
Could just be a pyramid formation built on and around a hill/mountain. Still impressive, but the volume would be much less.
 
OuterWorldVoice said:
It is the easiest, most stable way to make something very large and very tall. It's no more mysterious than a lot of things naturally forming circles. Roughly the same concept.
Yeah, I reinvented the pyramid when I was a couple years old. It's just common sense after trying to stack a different way and failing a few times.
 
Binabik15 said:
You can create tall, durable buildings by stacking stones onto each other, every new plane getting smaller. Many cultures could figure that out.

Mind=blown.
do you know how to build pyramids with rooms in it? i don't think so
 
Interesting, some of the stuff they showed though doesn't even look real! BTW what's with the rails and wooden stairs, obviously those were added on, but by who (if this is so new/undiscovered?)

PS. Pyramids from ancient cultures are scattered throughout the world, nothing about it is exclusive to Egypt;

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ChoklitReign said:
What makes this any different from the European hoax? It's all land, there's a chance it's a natural formation.
Not if they've excavated it.

Man made mounds are incredibly common. They've been built throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

In the U.S. alone you have a long chain of man made mounds along the Mississippi River, with the largest being Monk's Mound. The Mississippians (as the prehistoric culture is referred to) built networks of mounds and they where used for everything from platform dwellings, protection, ceremonial purposes, and as community meeting places.

I actually helped excavate one a couple summers ago. I'm a geologist by trade but was helping the future wife out when she was working as a T.A. digging the site. It was blatantly obvious that the mounds where man made, you could even see the differences in soil composition and coloration from basket load to basket load almost like undulating waves of clay once you got deep enough to see a profile in your trench.
 
Drek said:
I actually helped excavate one a couple summers ago. I'm a geologist by trade .


Please tell our alien masters that we welcome them and will deliver all the human flesh they require for sustenance.
 
This pyramid/lost city has been known about for quite a while.. but it is located in drug cartel land which made getting to it nearly impossible.. i guess they made a deal to be allowed to have an archeological dig. at least it's been pretty well known in Guatemala.
 
ChoklitReign said:
What makes this any different from the European hoax? It's all land, there's a chance it's a natural formation.


I always read your name as ChoklitRegion and then I think it's slang for the anus.


I don't know why.
 
BigJonsson said:
I went to CHichen Itza in August, was so fun

But Ek Balam nearby was insane as you are still allowed to climb to the top!


I went to Chichen Itza when you could still climb it. It was actually incredibly dizzying to be up there, in the crazy heat with the even crazier gradient - fun on the way up and mildly terrifying on the way down. Best day trip of my entire life. I loved seeing the sacrificial Ceynote, where they dredged it and found mountains of gold and jade (as well as human bones).
 
mike23 said:
It sucks that they have to waste resources guarding it because of assholes who will steal anything, it's despicable.

Welcome to Eastern Europe.
 
how is this some new find when in the video there were old ass wooden steps and handrail sitting at the top! :lol
 
Timedog said:
how is this some new find when in the video there were old ass wooden steps and handrail sitting at the top! :lol
Problem with archaeology is that when certain things are discovered and such, they aren't announced in certain news circles till months or even years later. I don't know the entire process but I imagine this pyramid has been known, both locally and scientifically, for years. It's only till now that the general public get the news about it.
 
speedpop said:
Problem with archaeology is that when certain things are discovered and such, they aren't announced in certain news circles till months or even years later. I don't know the entire process but I imagine this pyramid has been known, both locally and scientifically, for years. It's only till now that the general public get the news about it.

Maybe that would have made sense when information travelled at the speed of boat. Why would they wait to announce stuff?
 
speedpop said:
Problem with archaeology is that when certain things are discovered and such, they aren't announced in certain news circles till months or even years later. I don't know the entire process but I imagine this pyramid has been known, both locally and scientifically, for years. It's only till now that the general public get the news about it.

Possibly. I just now learned that pyramids are something exclusively associated with Ancient Egypt.
 
jamesinclair said:
CNN doesnt report news. If they did, the puerto rico fire would have been on TV


It was, at 3 AM EST Friday October 23rd. It was only 30 seconds long, but they did repeat it a number of times.
 
Drek said:
Not if they've excavated it.

Man made mounds are incredibly common. They've been built throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

In the U.S. alone you have a long chain of man made mounds along the Mississippi River, with the largest being Monk's Mound. The Mississippians (as the prehistoric culture is referred to) built networks of mounds and they where used for everything from platform dwellings, protection, ceremonial purposes, and as community meeting places.

I actually helped excavate one a couple summers ago. I'm a geologist by trade but was helping the future wife out when she was working as a T.A. digging the site. It was blatantly obvious that the mounds where man made, you could even see the differences in soil composition and coloration from basket load to basket load almost like undulating waves of clay once you got deep enough to see a profile in your trench.

Any good books for beginners about the Mississippi Mound builders that isn't too scientific-y and without conspiracy shit? Or is it all pretty much research papers right now?

I am kind of surprised that the mysteries of the mound builders haven't really caught public imagination, but I guess its a good thing or else you would have a whole bunch of dumbasses dicking around with them and ruining any chance of getting some science out of them.
 
BTW while we're on the topic of pyramids, anyone else think it's pretty awesome how the Pyramid of the Sun has nearly the exact same base dimensions as the Great Pyramid of Giza?;



Pretty cool, imo the sun pyramid is one of the most beautiful ancient structures i've ever seen.. might just be me.
 
Meus Renaissance said:
Interesting that we have pyramids, something until recently exclusively associated with Ancient Egypt, on almost every continent on Earth
aliens put them there man.
 
Eh, if aliens showed us how to make pyramids then that's a pretty poor species of alien. Show me some pics of see -through buildings hanging 100 foot in the air with no means of support and I'll show you an alien race worth talking about.
 
freddy said:
Eh, if aliens showed us how to make pyramids then that's a pretty poor species of alien. Show me some pics of see -through buildings hanging 100 foot in the air with no means of support and I'll show you an alien race worth talking about.
Whoever built these structures knew what they were doing in the sense that they created them around the idea that it will last thousands of years far after they are gone/dead for all to see.

Something like that can't be done simply because it would need constant renovation, in other words it would not be self sustaining without anyone to look after it.
 
Wii said:
You guys know there's pyramids in Bosnia and China right?
You know that has yet to be actually proven as man made pyramids though, right?

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Would be awesome if they ended up being real though, funny how not much (imo) scientific study seems to have been put into the little discovery..
 
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