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Coral pyramids

Coral pyramids

 

Professor Chuan-Chou Shen and his team identified the construction dates of globally unique coral pyramidal tombs (rectangular base: 20 m x 20 m) in a ruined capital of Kosrae in the Pacific.

 

Three sacred pyramid tombs are dated to the 14th century, more than 300 years earlier than previous thought.

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