Pyramids - tombs is probably a poor word. To cite... um.. Wikipedia:
... a pyramid was a resting place, rather than a tomb, providing the occupant with all the requirements both physical and mystical for the journey of the ka to the afterlife to become an akh, ...
The
Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov story/article reflects a bigger problem of what to do with Communist propaganda sources. Sure we could completely disallow these as not being reliable sources, but then there would be almost no "reliable sources" on 50 years of Soviet history (at least for the smaller, internal stories; wars, spaceshots and such are a different matter), and a big chunk of mainland Chinese history. This type of problem has come up at
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya and
Pavlik Morozov and
Stjepan Filipović. The 2 first-named articles now look like they've handled it pretty well.
Smallbones(
smalltalk)19:07, 7 November 2015 (UTC)reply
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