Breaking News: Ancient people figured out how to stack rocks effectively.
There's also the reality that the Egyptian pyramids on the left were all built over 2000 years before all the Mayan pyramids on the right
That and Egyptian pyramids were tombs, whereas pyramids in Central and South America were mostly temples for worship.
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See I don't get this "logic"
All of these ancient buildings had a similar structure, therefore a fantastic secret underwater civilization exists
the secret civilisatoon is called "Logic" and these people aren't part of it
Poseidon of the Gaps fallacy.
I love Sneferu's pyramid. They realized halfway through the were building it too steeply, so just changed the angle for the last half.
The bent pyramid is so cool, it's the second pyramid they built that fucked up. Once they had to change the angle to stop the burial chambers from collapsing, they started work on the 3rd and final Red pyramid, which they nailed and buried Sneferu in.
They used all that knowledge that they gained in failure directly to create the great pyramid. It's a unbroken chain of engineering marvels!
Sneferu's snafu.
Maybe they just ran out of material and still wanted a pointy tip
No, the foundations were unstable and they needed to do something to reduce the weight.
They left out all the ziggurats
All path leads to Arch
Triangle strong. Hidden civilization?
The difference between a pyramid and a pile of rocks is organization. It's a really not a leap to figure it out.
They all learned it here.
