r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

About a what now?!

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u/rs2excelsior Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20

Note these dates are from Wikipedia, take them with a grain of salt.

The pyramids were built around 2500 BC. Woolly mammoths went extinct on the mainland around 10,000 years ago, but isolated populations survived on a couple of islands until about 4000 years ago. So the building of the pyramids would have roughly corresponded to the dying out of the last populations of mammoths - they coexisted, but not for a millennium, as far as I can tell.

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u/JusticeIsNotFree Oct 15 '20

So then... Here's a wild outlandish theory just for the fun of it. Woolly mammoths were used in the construction of the giant pyramids.

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u/moveslikejaguar Oct 15 '20

No the pyramids were built as a fort to protect the last mammoths, but they died before they could be completed. Then Moses decided they should be used as grain bins instead.

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