• ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    There is some bullshit going on with the “rediscovery” -part… It’s like, smack on the mountainside. You can plainly see it from the nearby town. And there are houses within a couple hundred meters of the site in the other direction…

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      From a reddit post I found:

      The complex was lost and forgotten for centuries; then found by accident by a local pilot in 2000.

      On a clear February morning in 2000, Nicolino Lombardi, a local historian and pilot, flew his ultralight over nearby Mt. San Nicola. He planned to photograph a recent landslide on the hills south of his village of Pietravairano in the Campania region of Italy. Lombardi had photographed this region in the past and was accustomed to seeing fragments of ancient Samnite, Roman, and medieval ruins mostly obscured by blankets of foliage. However, during this particular flight, the view was different. A recent brushfire had cleared the overgrowth and revealed a long-hidden treasure: the ruins of a theatre/temple complex. In his report following his discovery, Lombardi wrote, “This time, however, the symmetry immediately catches the eye, and everything is clear in a flash: I even seem to see a temple and a theater, with the colonnade still standing and the wide steps full of spectators” (Lombardi p.1).

      His photo from 2000

      More info (in Italian)

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    I don’t get it. Was the houses in the background built after it was rediscovered, or were people just blind?

    Was it burried? How? Its on the top of a hill.

    Here is another angle with even more buildings and fields with a clear line of sight.

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      I’m imagining it looked something like the Teotihuacan pyramid before it was excavated: looks like a mountain.

      Teotihuacan pyramid before and after excavation

      Edit: Uploaded higher-res photo.

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          Nah, they are all over. There’s enough of them that the ancient aliens people always end up talking about them. Famous one in Eastern Europe. The difference is that those have strata layers, not blocks of stone

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            do you mean buried pyramids or mountains that look like they contain pyramids but are just mountains?

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              Mountains that look like pyramids are pretty common. Normally they aren’t quite that straight, but it does happen. AFAIK we scan them these days to see if anything is there before bothering to dig

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    i guess nobody looks outside of planes?

    Or satelites don’t fucking exist, hikers aren’t a thing.

    People who look up aren’t real.

    Bro you’re drunk, go home.

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        5 months ago

        no but the problem here is rediscovered implies that we just “forgot about it”

        like how you rediscover that one pair of socks you had. It wasn’t under thirty feet of dirt, it was just in a drawer somewhere.