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Fake News – 'Ruins of Ancient City Discovered in Australian Desert' – Hoax-Slayer

Outline

Report being shared via social media claims that the ruins of an ancient city have been discovered in the Australian desert. The report features a photograph that supposedly depicts the Australian ruins.  




Brief Analysis

The claims in the message are nonsense. No such ruins have been found in Australia. The image actually depicts the 2000-year-old foundations of pyramids found at Sedeinga in northern Sudan. The fake report was published by World News Daily Report, a site that bills itself as satirical. Nothing published on World News Daily Report has any credibility and its reports should not be taken seriously.

Example

Ruins of Ancient City Discovered in Australian Desert

Alice Springs| A team of archaeologists working for the Australian National University, who were proceeding to an excavation near the sandstone rock formation of Uluru, has unearthed the ruins of a large precolonial city dating back to more than 1500 years ago.

Fake News Ancient City Australia



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