Teeeechnically they're giant fucking Pentahedrons, not triangles. :P
But then go and decide to use a square base... SMH.
The great pyramid appears to have an octagonal base.
https://www.discovery.com/exploration/Eight-Faces-Great-Pyramid-Giza
Not like a full equitable octagon, but four faces each split via a small concavity.
I think the attached picture is the original one an RAF pilot took at dusk when he noticed that the shadow wasn't uniform across the face of one side.
I know the 8 sides are contested, some people say the concavity is an optical illusion.
TBF at the time it was green & foresty
Jaffa, kree!
Indeed
TBF he was right
Because I'm a mod both here and there, I'm going to promote another community: https://lemmy.world/c/ancientinternet
We have lots of this sort of thing.
No Elamites.
Oh, so you think that you've got anything better to do with your civilized time? Like drink more room-temperature, unfiltered beer while playing even more senet net hab deep into the night-wenuts?
I hear of places, neb, where frozen water floats in the sea that can cool our beer. Though I do not know what foul sorcery is needed to obtain it. Perhaps we shall gain wisdom from Osiris, whose limbs are intact.
Pff, kids these days. Back then we had Amun, Min and Re as separate entities. And we were happy with it.
They should have traded one for Stonehenge to really fuck with modern-day antiquarians.
