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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.

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[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

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.