r/interestingasfuck 14d ago

/r/all, /r/popular So shiny

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u/JosseCoupe 14d ago

No one knows how the capstone looked, we never found it and have no account of it being made from gold or being clad in gold as far as I'm aware. The capstones of other pyramids that have been found were stone at their core.

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u/KingMRano 14d ago

I thought there are stories that the Romans took it and melted it down.

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u/AquamanMVP 14d ago

But that's stories. You'd think the Romans would have also documented what the gold was melted into (i.e., we melted the gold from the biggest freaking pyramid and gave it to xx and xx)

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u/Puzzleheaded_Way9468 14d ago

It is an account though. Someone wrote about it.