Atlantis Build The Pyramids

                                                   

Ignatius Loyola Donnelly, an ex-congressman from Minnesota, wrote a well-known "history" of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World in 1882, which posits that Atlantis, a sizable island once known as Atlantis, once stood in the Atlantic Ocean. He believed that Plato's portrayal of this island was a historical account rather than a myth. Donnelly argued that the first time man advanced from primitive to civilized society was in the territory of Atlantis, and European "Bronze Age" tools were derived from those used in Atlantis. 

He pointed to the striking similarities between the pyramids of Egypt and those of Mesoamerica as proof for his claim that the Atlanteans had established colonies throughout the world. However, archaeologist Kenneth Feder noted that the pyramids of the Old and New Worlds do not resemble one another. Egyptian pyramids are real geometric pyramids with four triangular faces connecting at a shared apex, while New World pyramids are truncated with flat tops. Egyptian pyramids were used as platforms for temples and burial chambers for deceased pharaohs in the New World. They also used different building techniques, with most Egyptian pyramids representing a single construction episode. The belief that the pyramids were built by ancient Egyptians was further challenged when Dominique Goerlitz and Stefan Erdmann were detained for damaging the Great Pyramid of Giza. They claimed that the cartouche at Giza's Great Pyramid claiming Khufu as its designer was a forgery and planned to examine the pigments to show they were not as old as the pyramids themselves. They claimed that evidence supporting the non-Egyptian origins of the pyramids is being concealed or purposefully disregarded by orthodox archaeologists.