Oldest European Pyramids? Archaeologists Find Two 5,500-Year-Old Structures In Poland | World News
New Delhi: Archaeologists in Poland have now made a remarkable discovery that revealed two great prehistoric burial areas called “Poland Pyramids”. These neolithic tombs were unearthed in the General DEZYDERY Chłapowski Landscape Park in Wielkopolska Voivodeship. The discovery was officially announced on Facebook by the Landscape Parks Complex of Wielkopolska region.
Researchers from the University of Mickiewicz announced that Megalithic structures lasted for more than 5,500 years in the 4th millennium BC. This makes them simultaneously with Stonehenge and makes them much older than the Egyptian pyramids.
According to the Archeology News, the tombs were built using large stones weighing 10 tons, some were 10 tons of weight, acting using primitive vehicles and collective labor. The structures are trapezoidal, 200 meters long and up to 4 meters high.
The definitive compliance with cardinal aspects shows that builders rarely have advanced astronomical knowledge for the period.
Each grave probably held a single skeleton, looked at the legs overlooking the legs on his back, and accompanied various grave goods, including ceramics, stone axes and distinctive ships.
Experts confirmed that it was created by Funnelnbeaker culture, a neolithic society known for its monumental tomb practices and early farming lifestyle.
Artur Golis from the Regional Landscape Park Association said, “Although the people of Funnelnbeaker were relatively egalitarian, these graves were reserved for key figures in the community – leaders, shamans or spiritual elders”.
“Every generation of the community probably built its own megalite, Pap Polish National News Agency, Pap, said.
This finding is a new sheds on the religious, social and architectural sophistication of neolithic societies in Europe and challenge existing narratives about early European civilizations.
Most of these tombs have been worn or lost, only those hidden in the forest areas survived to the present day.
In the report, “findings may contain elements such as stone tools, ceremonial ax, decorated ceramics or rare clay ships used to keep substances such as opium,” he said.
