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The way people keep calling any old pile of rocks a 'pyramid' is driving me nuts

I was reading about a site in Bosnia where some guy claimed a hill was a pyramid and now tourists are going there. I've worked on actual excavation digs and you can't just look at a hill and call it a pyramid because it kinda looks pointy. Has anyone else run into this fake archaeology stuff going viral?

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cameron_palmer4d ago

i mean yeah, it's gotten completely out of hand honestly. i saw that bosnia thing too and i was just shaking my head because the guy has zero actual evidence, it's just a hill with some trees on it. real archaeology takes so much work and patience, like you said, you can't just eyeball something and call it a pyramid because it looks kinda pointy from one angle. it bums me out because it makes people think real history is just whatever story sounds cool on social media.

abby_singh4d ago

totally agree with you @cameron_palmer and the bosnia thing is such a joke. i spent a summer on a real dig in the desert and we had to map every single stone by hand for months, not just point at a hill and say "pyramid.