Experts: Carson’s belief pyramids used to store grain is wrong

One of the frontrunners to receive the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Ben Carson, stood by his belief Thursday that Egypt’s great pyramids were built by the Biblical figure Joseph to store grain. It’s an assertion experts dismiss.

Buzzfeed News posted a video Wednesday that shows Carson explaining his theory 17 years ago at a Michigan college affiliated with his Seventh-day Adventist Church. In it, he was referring to Joseph’s prediction of famine and advising the pharaoh to store surplus food.

At a book signing yesterday in Florida, Carson defended his theory, which he has said is more likely than the accepted archaeological conclusion that the massive structures were built as tombs for pharaohs.

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