Looks like they may have just dug up a contemporary of Ghandas.

A pyramid has been discovered in Kazakhstan that might be even older than some Egyptian structures

Going on early evidence, the structure was likely built more than 3,000 years ago, around the time of the late Bronze Age. But it’s not – despite what some outlets have claimed – the oldest pyramid ever found.

In fact, the Pyramid of Djoser in Sakkara, Egypt, was built about 1,000 years earlier, between 2667 and 2648 BC. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 100 years later, making it older than this new Kazakhstan pyramid – although it will take more time for the team to accurately come up with a date of construction.

It’s actually a mausoleum, only 2 metres high.

Here’s a definitive account of why you shouldn’t necessarily believe what you read on the internet. It’s a story about how the internet can take a perfectly fascinating story and make it misleading.

No it’s not a pyramid

Case in point, some news was made this week when Viktor Novozhenov, an archaeologist with the Saryarka Archaeological Institute at Karaganda State University in Kazakhstan spoke with Live Science about a Bronze Age mausoleum he helped unearth in Kazakhstan.

I’ll link to the article because Owen Jarus from Live Science did the hard work of finding Novozhenov (http://www.livescience.com/55796-ancient-mausoleum-not-worlds-first-pyramid.html) and talking to him about this very cool archaeological discovery.

The Mausoleum, according to the article is about 2 meters high and about 15 by 14 meters long. Novozhenov told Live Science. It’s “made from stone, earth and fortified by slabs in the outer side.” Its shape is pyramidal to the extent that the walls of rubble that define the mausoleum rise towards the center of the excavation.

http://www.voanews.com/a/kazakhstan-pyramid/3472159.html

> The Mausoleum, according to the article is about 2 meters high and about 15 by 14 meters long

Is that 2 metres before or after the centre subsided? The final height could be half the height before subsidence, or even smaller. The mound is “constructed of five walls”.

My hypothesis is that these sorts of structures functioned as grandstands, where people could view the sporting events going on around them. Some of the smallest grandstands are only two metres high.

Bubblecar said:

It’s actually a mausoleum, only 2 metres high.

Here’s a definitive account of why you shouldn’t necessarily believe what you read on the internet. It’s a story about how the internet can take a perfectly fascinating story and make it misleading.

No it’s not a pyramid

My interest was purely in the occupant. The pyramid reference was merely coincidental.

Postpocelipse said:

Bubblecar said:

It’s actually a mausoleum, only 2 metres high.

http://gdb.voanews.com/9427E22A-D6B0-477E-A47E-2594F84C6FDB_w987_r1_s.jpg

Here’s a definitive account of why you shouldn’t necessarily believe what you read on the internet. It’s a story about how the internet can take a perfectly fascinating story and make it misleading.

No it’s not a pyramid

My interest was purely in the occupant. The pyramid reference was merely coincidental.

The occupant disappeared ages ago, when it was looted, didn’t he?

mollwollfumble said:

Postpocelipse said:

Bubblecar said:

It’s actually a mausoleum, only 2 metres high.

http://gdb.voanews.com/9427E22A-D6B0-477E-A47E-2594F84C6FDB_w987_r1_s.jpg

Here’s a definitive account of why you shouldn’t necessarily believe what you read on the internet. It’s a story about how the internet can take a perfectly fascinating story and make it misleading.

No it’s not a pyramid

My interest was purely in the occupant. The pyramid reference was merely coincidental.

The occupant disappeared ages ago, when it was looted, didn’t he?

I’m
waiting for Russia today to spill the beans on this place

mollwollfumble said:

Postpocelipse said:

Bubblecar said:

It’s actually a mausoleum, only 2 metres high.

http://gdb.voanews.com/9427E22A-D6B0-477E-A47E-2594F84C6FDB_w987_r1_s.jpg

Here’s a definitive account of why you shouldn’t necessarily believe what you read on the internet. It’s a story about how the internet can take a perfectly fascinating story and make it misleading.

No it’s not a pyramid

My interest was purely in the occupant. The pyramid reference was merely coincidental.

The occupant disappeared ages ago, when it was looted, didn’t he?

No idea. Haven’t had any time while Xander was here to look anything up. The date they place on the site puts it smack bang in Ghandas’s time AFAICT. I’m very interested in anything and everything that is dug up from between about 1750 and 1300 b.c.