Archaeologists realized long ago that there were other methods of dating things and that they corroborate. IEEE isn't exactly a cutting edge archaeology journal

Archaeologists realized long ago that there were other methods of dating things and that they corroborate. IEEE isn't exactly a cutting edge archaeology journal, so hopefully we can forgive them for not explaining this in a popsci piece. There's also about a century of prior art demonstrating the evolution of pyramid construction from Djoser through Khufu. It's fine to question popsci narratives, but it seems a bit premature to call them fairy tales before you've looked at the relevant wiki page.