Pyramids Discovered in Poland

Dating back 5,500 years, they may also be the largest prehistoric Polish structures ever discovered.

Excavation of Polish pyramid

Archaeologists have unearthed two historically significant “Polish pyramids”, each containing megalith tombs from one of the region’s first agricultural societies.

These are not of the same towering scale as the pyramids of Egypt, but were built around 1,000 years before them. The Polish pyramids are an impressive 656 feet in length and 13 feet in height. The ancient builders of these megalith structures constructed them “in elongated trapezoidal forms, with wide, high eastern fronts narrowing into tapering, low western ‘tails,’” Archaeology News reports.

Archaeologists says that these builders held an advanced understanding of spatial design and that the arrangement of the “extraordinary” monuments might have held symbolic significance related to their belief system as they adhered to cardinal directions. Archaeologists deduce that they were engaged in astronomy.

Built with massive stones, some weighing up to 10 tons, the builders used “sledges and human power” to transport them. However, people moved many of the large stones over subsequent centuries, leading to their loss or degradation. Nonetheless, archaeologists know the society buried their leaders in these monumental graves, which are among the largest ever seen.

Excavation has only just begun and expectations are high that they will reveal more about this ancient European culture. Archaeology News notes that these structures remind us that progress doesn’t exist in a linear timeframe and that this Polish society from the Stone Age was remarkably advanced.

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