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Egypt Tells Elon Musk Its Pyramids Were Not Built By Aliens
BBC, Egypt has invited billionaire Elon Musk to visit the country and see for himself that its famous pyramids were not built by aliens.
The SpaceX boss had tweeted what appeared to be support for conspiracy theo- rists who say aliens were involved in the colossal con- struction effort.
But Egypt's inter- national co-oper- ation minister does not want them taking any of the credit.
She says seeing the tombs of the pyramid builders would be the proof.
The tombs dis- covered in the 1990s are defini- tive evidence,
experts say, that the magnificent structures were indeed built by ancient Egyptians.
On Friday, the tech tycoon tweeted: "Aliens built the pyramids obv", which was retweeted more than 84,000 times.
Egypt's Minister of International Co-operation Rania al-Mashat responded on Twitter, saying she followed and admired Mr Musk's work.
But she urged him to further explore evidence about the build- ing of the struc- tures built for
pharaohs of Egypt.
Egyptian archae- ologist Zahi Hawass also responded in a short video in Arabic, posted on social media, saying Mr Musk's argument was a "complete halluci- nation".
"I found the
tombs of the pyr- amids builders that tell everyone that the builders of the pyramids are Egyptians and they were not
slaves," EgyptTo day quotes him as saying.
Mr Musk did later tweet a link to a BBC History site about the lives of
the pyramid builders, saying: "This BBC article provides a sensi- ble summary for how it was done."
There are more than 100 surviv- ing pyramids but the most famous is the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt - stand- ing at more than 450ft (137m).
Most of them were built as tombs - a final resting places for Egypt's royalty.
Mr Musk is known for his prolific and at times erratic tweeting. He once told CNBC: "Twitter's a war zone. If some- body's gonna jump in the war zone, it's, like, 'Okay, you're in the arena. Let's go!'"
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