If you really want your mind blown, look at this. A 500,000 year old wooden structure was unearthed in Zambia. Anatomically modern humans have only been around for like 200,000 years, which means whoever built this wasn’t “human” but some other species of ancient hominid.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66846772

There's an entire collection called The Pyramid Texts that covers this in great detail. There are many sources. Not just some worker's graffiti.

Not much more impressive than a chimp using a stick to catch termites.

Neanderthal man was around much longer than us and had culture and maybe even speech of some type.

Really? I think using a rock to smash open a shell or a twig to reach further into a termite mound is, like, absolute bare minimum requirement for being considered “using tools”.

A structure with notched wood? That’s next level shit. I don’t think we see even great apes today do anything like that despite literally living in environments surrounded by wood.

If David Attenborough released a documentary tomorrow with a chimp colony building a lean-to it would be groundbreaking lol

No doubt, though I believe Neanderthals were chilling up in Europe. This structure was discovered in Southern Africa so there’s a very good chance it was some other hominid.

Which is honestly mind blowing in its own right. If you went back 100,000 years ago, there were, like, six hominid species living on the planet at the same time. We know we are the only ones left. We also know we carry DNA from many of those groups so there had to be a lot of ****ing (raping too, probably).

How did interactions typically fare? Was it kill on-site? Only skirmishes over local resources? Did they trade? Did they trade information and tech?

To be a fly on a pile of wildebeest shit 50,000 years ago..

I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain that a mummy or human remains have ever been found inside a pyramid, especially in supposed sarcophagi.

If someone wants to point me to actual evidence of that, I'll gladly oblige in reading it.

Until then, it seems more likely that "tomb" is a misinterpretation.

You're going to give me a source I can write?

It looks like the book referenced by Lehner is the only true "source." I may check that out.

Would.

Well that took longer than I thought....

The Sumerians wrote in cuneiform that we originated as a DNA splice between their species (they came here from their home planet that originates near the belt of Orion) and humans. They created us as a slave race to mine gold that they could bring back to their home planet to help fix their atmosphere.

And it’s outside the box low key plausible. Everything funnels to gold eventually.

Side note…a few thousand years later, they stopped by the virgin marys place…

Here’s my take.

They WERE TOMBS.

Until the system broke down piece by piece in the centuries after tut and the heiarchy KNEW the tombs in the pyramids would be looted and their ancestors afterlife destroyed.

So they started carving out burial tombs in the valley to move them to, one by one. To preserve them. This was kinda their knights Templar..

Recommend me books and TV shows immediately.

think about all of the undiscovered shit in the Amazon and other parts of the world