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The Pyramid of... Benben?
(lemmy.world)
Just so you know, absolutely none of that is true.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidion_of_Amenemhat_III
I don't know if the person who posted that is sincere or not, but plenty of people sincerely believe this sort of thing when it is posted on Facebook.
There's a little something to it, but yeah it seems their post is at least 90% wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benben
There's something to it in that the archaeologists who discovered it named that sort of thing a Benben stone after the mound of creation they are supposed to symbolize. I'd put that at more like 99% wrong but I'm willing to concede that they got the word Benben from something related to whatever the fuck they were trying to say.
In all fairness, I wasn't there when the archaeologists named it, and I have no idea why they named it that, but yeah it's called a Benben stone, they've been called that for a long time. Yeah it sounds silly, but that's probably the only correct word in their post. 🤷♂️
Yeah, but like I said to someone else, not really... it's like calling the Cleopatra's Needle "the Egyptian obelisk." I mean, yeah, it's an obelisk. But it's not THE obelisk.
Lemmy is the only place I've ever seen people reference Wikipedia so much, smh.
Why wouldn't we use our version of the great Library of Alexandria?
All the sources are literally linked beneath.
Then just link their sources. It's not rocket science. A lot of information on Wikipedia is misconstrued from the facts and intents present in their sources, although I doubt anybody has it out for Amenemhat the third specifically we should follow the principle on this subject.
Got a source for that claim?
Yeah hold on let me find a good source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
Why did you link Wikipedia and not the sources?
Are you saying that my source, on wikipedia being unreliable, is unreliable because it is wikipedia?
Well most of the cited studies are a decade old, I'm just curious why you didn't follow your own advice to others and cite the original source.
It feels like you didn't answer my question just now.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. shrug I'm glad to have Wikip cites, to go and explore.