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Witness statements
01Around 2580 BCE, a massive construction project began on a desert plateau in northeastern Africa — a monument so precisely oriented to the cardinal directions that its builders outperformed the magnetic compass by nearly an order of magnitude, using nothing we've confirmed they possessed.
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