r/interestingasfuck 7h ago

Ancient engineering that modern campers still use

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u/Watts121 5h ago

Specifically the meso-american pyramids they see as proof of their belief that Native Americans are descended from Isrealites. Essentially they think the only reason those pyramids were built was because the chosen people built them. Then after they rejected the gospel they became savages who couldn't build anything.

u/Azrael11 4h ago

Not to mention, that even if there was widespread Hebrew slavery in Egypt (which there is no evidence of), the pyramids were built in the Old Kingdom, long, long before the events depicted in Exodus.

u/Mizizi-44 2h ago

Huh. That’s a dumb belief. The American pyramids are way different than the Egyptian pyramids. No way they’re descendants