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The theater/temple of San Nicola near Caserta, Italy, was rediscovered by chance in 2000 by a paraglider. It's 2100 years old and hosts a theater and a temple on the same hill 520 high (i0.wp.com)

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[–] AngryCommieKender 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nah, they are all over. There's enough of them that the ancient aliens people always end up talking about them. Famous one in Eastern Europe. The difference is that those have strata layers, not blocks of stone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

do you mean buried pyramids or mountains that look like they contain pyramids but are just mountains?

[–] AngryCommieKender 3 points 3 weeks ago

Mountains that look like pyramids are pretty common. Normally they aren't quite that straight, but it does happen. AFAIK we scan them these days to see if anything is there before bothering to dig