Fishy Pyramids

Fishy Pyramids

Despite our well documented bias for believing that everything great in the world was invented by the Lebanese, you gotta admit that this whole Pyramid discovery business in Lebanon is at least a little fishy.

Forget for a moment that is is just one article behind a paywall of a British newspaper. (Where are the archeological journal reports? where are the Egyptologists hyper-ventilating on Twitter over the discovery? Where is the Lebanese Minister of Tourism salivating over the prospect of gaggles of visitors who want to stare adoringly at the supposed inspiration for the great pyramids of Egypt, while throwing fresh dollars at us for this privilege?)

I mean just look at this thing:

Be honest now. Open your eyes. Shelve that Lebanese pride for a moment and stare objectively at this squat, ugly piece of stone. Does it look like it inspired the Great Pyramids of Giza to you? The pyramids with all the sophisticated and rich socio-religious background, built in a completely different climate by a completely different people under completely different circumstances on a completely different scale?

It actually feels like some Lebanese troll wanted to create a Lebanese version of those mysterious Utah-monoliths popping up all around the world, except that person has some Phoenician fetish and a belief that greatness only comes with thousands of years of age.

For now, I’m not falling for the hype. But maybe I will be proved wrong.