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Hah, I always knew the Cheops pyramid wasn't built by Khufu. Unfortunately the damned egyptians won't let a proper international science team look at the damned thing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4377290.stm

Europe's first pyramid?

Bosnia's leading Muslim daily Dnevni Avaz writes excitedly about "a sensational discovery" of "the first European pyramid" in the central town of Visoko, just north of Sarajevo.

Excavations at a hill site above the town have been going on for several months and initial analyses "have confirmed the original claim that this is Europe's first pyramid and a monumental building, similar in dimensions to the Egyptian pyramids."

"The pyramid is 100 metres high and there is evidence that it contains rooms and a monumental causeway ... The plateau is built of stone blocks, which indicates the presence at the time of a highly developed civilisation," the daily explains.

"Archaeological excavations near the surface have uncovered a part of a wall and fragments of steps," it reveals.

"Visocica hill could not have been shaped like this by nature," geologist Nada Nukic tells the daily. "This is already far too more than we have anticipated but we expect a lot more from further analysis," she concludes.

I guess that explains the inscriptions saying that Khufu built the Cheops pyramid.

It's been examined many times by many people - not just Egyptians. You forget that the British essentially owned it for decades.

100 metres? That's pretty damned tall. Very exciting.

Was there any indication as to how this bigass pyramid stayed hidden for so long?

It could be just a hill that was 'adjusted' by humans. I remember this was a - relatively - common practice among several ancient people (Chinese and N. American Indians, IIRC).

I guess that explains the inscriptions saying that Khufu built the Cheops pyramid.

It's been examined many times by many people - not just Egyptians. You forget that the British essentially owned it for decades.
Except, of course, that the "inscription" was spelled wrong and several of the heiroglyphs were upside-fucking-down. As for more info on the pyramid itself:

http://www.hansrey.com/egypt-mystery.htm (slightly tinhatish, but not much)

http://www.cheops.org/ - The Upuhaut project.(Most interesting of all info on the pyramid)

If you go over the Cheops site they kicked the expedition out before it was allowed to find out what was behind the door. This combined with the design of the pyramid makes it extremely unlikely that it was built by khufu as it does not match religious significance of the time period.The outer shell of the pyramid dates back to Khufu's reign, but mortar samples taken from the top of the pyramid where the outer protective shell has worn away date to much older times. The only record of the pyramid being built by Khufu was done by Herodotus, who while known as the Father of History was also an accomplished liar. Other sources from the time period contradict him and state that Khufu was renovating the pyramids and performing upkeep on them. Moreover some of the "mayan" pyramids are just as interesting. There are slabs of sheet mica(All sources of mica are composed slightly differently, so scientists can tell from which source it is.) taken from quarrys near the middle of South America that are buried under the floors of the more notable mayan pyramids. It doesn't make sense how they would have gotten the mica in the first place, let alone transported it. Interestingly enough, sheet mica is generally used as an electrical insulator.

Except, of course, that the "inscription" was spelled wrong and several of the heiroglyphs were upside-fucking-down.
You just can't get the slaves nowadays... :-) (Before someone points it out, I do know that current theories are that the pyramids were built by paid workers.)

That is truly intriguing, however, do we have any indication as to how old it is, since it could merely be an ostentatiously elaborate cairn, or an imitation of Egyptian work, since Minoan, and therefore Mycenean and Doric culture was hevaily influenced by Egypt, and it is plausable, given the location of the pyramid, that it is merely reverential homage of Egyptian culture.