A New Study Claims The Great Pyramid Is 23,000 Years Old — Scientists Can't Explain It

An Italian engineer named Alberto Donini published a paper in late twenty twenty five proposing a dating method nobody had ever tried, pointed it at the Great Pyramid, and got roughly twenty five thousand years instead of the usual four thousand six hundred. What makes this one worth taking seriously is that it is not an Atlantis theory or star alignment numerology, it is a physical measurement anyone can go and repeat with a set of callipers. The idea behind it is genuinely clever too. When the outer casing was stripped after the thirteen oh three earthquake, it left two strips of the same pavement side by side, one sheltered until roughly six hundred and seventy five years ago and one exposed since construction. Two clocks on the same rock. In this one I lay out the four independent lines behind the conventional date, the gang graffiti in chambers sealed since construction, Mark Lehner's worker village, Merer's logbook written by a man who hauled the limestone himself, and radiocarbon from the mortar. Then I go through why the field has not adopted Donini's method, and it comes down to one word. Calibration. He has never run it on a building whose age we already know, which is the gate radiocarbon and tree ring dating both had to walk through. And the data itself gives the game away. Twelve readings on the same pavement, scattering from five thousand seven hundred years to fifty four thousand. Averaging that gives you a number, but the scatter is the real finding. It says something other than age is driving the measurement.
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