professional archaeologists have always had intellectual encounters with amateur researchers about the proper way interpret artifacts and monuments. There is a kind of "academic textbook," and everything that does not fit this closed form of thinking is discredited by scientists. One of the biggest debates between amateurs and professionals in the field of archeology in Brazil concerns the strange formations in the middle of inhospitable Amazonian jungle, discovered in 70 years. Would be natural formations, or pyramids built by man?
Pyramids are symbols of the advanced engineering of ancient peoples, a mark of their capacity compared to other people. Gigantic monuments built with astronomical purposes, funeral homes, or other more Controversial show the degree of development of a particular culture, and anthropologists and archaeologists have never found physical evidence or reports of these buildings in Brazil. But an independent group of researchers thinks differently.
In the early '70s, these two researchers, amateur archaeologist and anthropologist Roland Pires Brandão Alair José Pires da Costa said they had discovered during an overflight in the Amazon jungle, the three pyramids overgrown, many sought for centuries in Brazil. By his calculations, the largest one was about 200 meters - higher, so that the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, which has 146m - and well defined edges, with four faces convincing.
Revista Veja, in a report of 1 August 1979, sent pictures to the geographer Aziz Nabib Ab'Saber, director of the Institute of Geography at USP, and described as the biggest seen on the subject in Brazil. Right away, the expert ruled out the case of an archaeological monument, saying it would be purely natural formations.
The region, in the upper Rio Negro, is inaccessible, is left alone in the forest of virgin forest and the only pictures we have are taken from above, from aircraft. For now is the mystery. See the pictures, published in the journal, and give your opinion.
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http://veja.abril.com.br/acervodigital /
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