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(Live Science)   Article asks "what did the ancient Egyptian pyramids look like when they were built?" Subby is going out on a limb here, but he guesses they looked somewhat pyramid-shaped   (livescience.com) divider line
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Cyclometh [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 6:24:40 PM  
Yeah, but they were covered with smooth stone and granite capstones, so aside from being pyramidal, they looked pretty different from what we see today.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidion
 
revrendjim [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 6:49:36 PM  
I understand they were filled with grain.
 
Sin'sHero [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 7:16:13 PM  
Did it look like something designed by a committee, meant to be built by the lowest bidder?
 
some_beer_drinker
2023-02-05 8:54:49 PM  
they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.
 
chitownmike
2023-02-05 9:02:59 PM  
The Egyptian pyramids erupting from the sands at Giza are a testament to human ingenuity, engineering and slavery

Ftft
 
paulleah
2023-02-05 9:06:15 PM  

some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.


That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.
 
Mikey1969 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 9:12:28 PM  

paulleah: some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.

That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.


No, these aren't looted. There aren't discarded crates, things left behind, that's what happens when they loot a tomb. Not every speck is going to get them money. Nothing was ever put into these in the first place.
 
Carter Pewterschmidt [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 9:13:21 PM  
The pyramids are only still there because they were too big for the British Museum to take home.

/Actually the Egyptian government years ago wanted to demolish the great pyramids to use the stone for the canal. A civil servant knew if he objected he'd be ignored so he produced a report saying it would be more expensive to remove and recycle the pyramid stone and cheaper to just quarry new stone, so they did that.
 
Rizhail
2023-02-05 9:13:27 PM  

chitownmike: The Egyptian pyramids erupting from the sands at Giza are a testament to human ingenuity, engineering and slavery

Ftft


I'm not sure about other ancient structures in Egypt, but the Giza pyramids in particular have no evidence of slave labor in their construction. All evidence available (and there is a surprising amount, since records from the construction period were interred within) is that the pyramids were built in two cycling phases, with professional architects and builders doing all the pre-work during the farming seasons (think cutting blocks and prepping tools), and farmers coming in as paid labor during the flood season to actually do the building. There are records of things like workers taking sick days due to hangovers from festivals and shiat, not the kind of thing slaves get away with. The pyramids were basically a combination of grand tomb for the pharaoh and public works project, because even in ancient days civic leaders understood that letting a chunk of the population be without work and money 3 months out of the year was a bad plan.

Don't get me wrong, the Egyptians did take part in slavery, especially of foreigners, but it wasn't enslaved Hebrews or whatever that built the pyramids.

/tl;dr the original statement didn't need correcting
 
Autoerotic Defenestration
2023-02-05 9:14:20 PM  
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Mikey1969 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 9:15:20 PM  
THIS is why I want a time machine. Pictures don't do these things justice, I want to see this first hand when it's in its prime.
 
Quantumbunny
2023-02-05 9:17:32 PM  

Mikey1969: THIS is why I want a time machine. Pictures don't do these things justice, I want to see this first hand when it's in its prime.


Augmented reality, even just VR could give you absolutely excellent visuals, without infinite power requirements.
 
paulleah
2023-02-05 9:35:23 PM  

Mikey1969: paulleah: some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.

That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.

No, these aren't looted. There aren't discarded crates, things left behind, that's what happens when they loot a tomb. Not every speck is going to get them money. Nothing was ever put into these in the first place.


They literally stripped the outside 4' of the rock from the outside....and you're telling me that you are convinced that nobody was ever buried in a pyramid because the cabinets and shelving are missing?

The crack house on my block doesn't have any cabinets or shelves either. That doesn't mean there have never been any dead bodies there.
 
cepson
2023-02-05 9:41:51 PM  
The most interesting part of the article is caption on the digital reconstruction:

"A digital reconstruction of a Giza pyramid by Australian insurance company Budget Direct."

This is why I get my insurance from Pixar.
 
Gordon Bennett [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 10:17:49 PM  

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The pyramids weren't built by slaves. Try this historically accurate alternative.

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Jeff5
2023-02-05 10:17:54 PM  

cepson: The most interesting part of the article is caption on the digital reconstruction:

"A digital reconstruction of a Giza pyramid by Australian insurance company Budget Direct."

This is why I get my insurance from Pixar.


That's from the page explaining why they don't offer pyramid insurance anymore.
 
DON.MAC [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 10:30:27 PM  
I think the latter pyramids were just failed resurrection devices.

I also don't think they were ever finished in fancy stone.  If they were, why aren't there tons of the correct angle cut stone in Cairo?  That stone would have found its way into the market or the Citadel at least.  Also the entire region has a strange ability to never quite finish a building. That is even enshrine in the modern tax code of Egypt.

I think the pyramids at Giza were built mostly on two edges at a time which is why the south-east corners line up.  They kept adding stones to the north and west faces with small amounts on the other two sides to keep everything the right shape.  I also think the idea of the other other chambers was to have a place in the heart of a nearly finished pyramid when the Pharaoh died.  They seem to be at the correct positions based on when people tended to die in the accent world.  i.e. if you made it to 20, you were likely to make it to 45.  If you made it past 50 without a heat attack, odds were good to hit 70.  If also fixes the problem of having a dead Pharaoh and a flat toped pyramid.
 
emtwo
2023-02-05 10:42:51 PM  

Quantumbunny: Mikey1969: THIS is why I want a time machine. Pictures don't do these things justice, I want to see this first hand when it's in its prime.

Augmented reality, even just VR could give you absolutely excellent visuals, without infinite power requirements.


I get the feeling that you've never had actual sexual intercourse with a human being.
 
Craw Fu
2023-02-05 10:44:32 PM  

emtwo: Quantumbunny: Mikey1969: THIS is why I want a time machine. Pictures don't do these things justice, I want to see this first hand when it's in its prime.

Augmented reality, even just VR could give you absolutely excellent visuals, without infinite power requirements.

I get the feeling that you've never had actual sexual intercourse with a human being.


Fark is not your personal erotica site. Or your personal dating site.
 
Craw Fu
2023-02-05 10:47:19 PM  

Mikey1969: paulleah: some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.

That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.

No, these aren't looted. There aren't discarded crates, things left behind, that's what happens when they loot a tomb. Not every speck is going to get them money. Nothing was ever put into these in the first place.


There is literally a broken sarcophagus left behind in the pyramid of Khufu.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/inside-the-great-pyramid-75164298/#:~:text=This%20chamber%20is%20generally%20acknowledged%20as%20the%20spot,said%20to%20ring%20like%20a%20bell%20when%20struck.
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DON.MAC [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 10:50:46 PM  

Craw Fu: There is literally a broken sarcophagus left behind in the pyramid of Khufu.


That was a built in sarcophagus since it won't fit through the doorway.
 
Autoerotic Defenestration
2023-02-05 10:53:44 PM  

DON.MAC: Craw Fu: There is literally a broken sarcophagus left behind in the pyramid of Khufu.

That was a built in sarcophagus since it won't fit through the doorway.


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Micosavo [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-05 11:09:05 PM  

paulleah: Do some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.

That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.


Incorrect. No pharaoh was ever found in the three main pyramids at Giza. There are no hieroglyphics anywhere inside. All the walls are black and etched in soot and showing remnants of Hydrochloric acid.

Compare the pyramids with the Valley of the Kings and how ornate and decorated they are.

Do the Egyptologists really think that they spent 30yrs building a "burial tomb" and didn't bother to decorate the inside?

Also, maths is my jam. And the maths for the pyramids does not work out. 30 years to build it? 2.5million blocks? Well, the issue is not man power. The issue is 3D space. 30 yrs would require moving and placing 228+ blocks a day, most over 2.5tons (some almost 100tons). Based on current knowledge there was only one tributary off the Nile to deliver the blocks.

So how do you move 228 2.5ton blocks? 9.5 blocks an hour, 24/7, for 30yrs.

So either it took much longer than 30yrs, was built differently, or built by a previous Egyptian civilization.

Oh, and don't get me started on getting 100ton blocks on and off a wooden boat...
 
Micosavo [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-05 11:11:40 PM  
Oh, and the pyramids were built in reverse as regards quality and engineering. The oldest and first of the pyramids are the largest and best made and knowledge/quality/size of the pyramids went downhill from there.

How does that happen?
 
Fano
2023-02-05 11:35:22 PM  

Mikey1969: THIS is why I want a time machine. Pictures don't do these things justice, I want to see this first hand when it's in its prime.


The part that bakes my noodle is realizing that Cleopatra lived closer to our time than to the building of the Great Pyramid
 
Mikey1969 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 11:35:23 PM  

paulleah: Mikey1969: paulleah: some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.

That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.

No, these aren't looted. There aren't discarded crates, things left behind, that's what happens when they loot a tomb. Not every speck is going to get them money. Nothing was ever put into these in the first place.

They literally stripped the outside 4' of the rock from the outside....and you're telling me that you are convinced that nobody was ever buried in a pyramid because the cabinets and shelving are missing?

The crack house on my block doesn't have any cabinets or shelves either. That doesn't mean there have never been any dead bodies there.


Nothing is there. Nothing at all. Not even a discarded container that held something else. You think the swept up and called for a roll off dumpster when they left? Grave robbers don't clean up afterwards. There would have been something, anything, that was just trash.
 
Fano
2023-02-05 11:36:42 PM  

paulleah: Mikey1969: paulleah: some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.

That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.

No, these aren't looted. There aren't discarded crates, things left behind, that's what happens when they loot a tomb. Not every speck is going to get them money. Nothing was ever put into these in the first place.

They literally stripped the outside 4' of the rock from the outside....and you're telling me that you are convinced that nobody was ever buried in a pyramid because the cabinets and shelving are missing?

The crack house on my block doesn't have any cabinets or shelves either. That doesn't mean there have never been any dead bodies there.


To be honest, it's more surprising no one ever thought to use any of the pyramids as a corpse disposal hole for all their murdery needs. There should be tons of bodies just chucked in there.
 
bikkurikun
2023-02-06 12:34:42 AM  

Micosavo: paulleah: Do some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.

That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.

Incorrect. No pharaoh was ever found in the three main pyramids at Giza. There are no hieroglyphics anywhere inside. All the walls are black and etched in soot and showing remnants of Hydrochloric acid.

Compare the pyramids with the Valley of the Kings and how ornate and decorated they are.

Do the Egyptologists really think that they spent 30yrs building a "burial tomb" and didn't bother to decorate the inside?

Also, maths is my jam. And the maths for the pyramids does not work out. 30 years to build it? 2.5million blocks? Well, the issue is not man power. The issue is 3D space. 30 yrs would require moving and placing 228+ blocks a day, most over 2.5tons (some almost 100tons). Based on current knowledge there was only one tributary off the Nile to deliver the blocks.

So how do you move 228 2.5ton blocks? 9.5 blocks an hour, 24/7, for 30yrs.

So either it took much longer than 30yrs, was built differently, or built by a previous Egyptian civilization.

Oh, and don't get me started on getting 100ton blocks on and off a wooden boat...


God, this Graham Hancock deliberately ignorant nonsense just infuriatingly moronic.  The only thing that sucks worse than Graham Hancock is the neckbeards who think they are suddenly egyptologists and know it better than the world's leading academics because they watched Graham Hancock and/or Ancient aliens and then go on to present this bullshiat as 'facts', because they know 'maths'.

No for fark's sake, they were not the work of a previous Egyptian civilization.  We know this because there is actual records of the work crews that build them. Which you could know if you would do someone actual research on the topic instead of claiming fantasy as fact because you watched farking ancient aliens or another one of those shiatshows. 

If you are actually interested in the topic, read a proper book instead of buying into fantasies aimed at getting money out of gullible morons.  Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner's (2021) The Red Sea Scrolls: how ancient papyri reveal the secret of the pyramids is a good start.

https://the-past.com/feature/records-of-the-pyramid-builders-discovering-eye-witness-accounts-of-a-legendary-construction-project/
 
bikkurikun
2023-02-06 12:46:50 AM  
Mikey1969:

Nothing is there. Nothing at all. Not even a discarded container that held something else. You think the swept up and called for a roll off dumpster when they left? Grave robbers don't clean up afterwards. There would have been something, anything, that was just trash.

The problem with your argument is that it is wrong, uninformed, and deliberately ignorant. 
You know that there are thousand years between the Giza pyramids and the elaborate burial chambers of the Valley of the Kings right? Enough time for burial rites, culture, custom and religion to change considerably. The majority of pyramids found are undecorated, and bones, sarcophagi, and (fractions of) funerary items have definitely and most certainly been found in them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_finds_in_Egyptian_pyramids
 
majestic
2023-02-06 12:59:10 AM  
Trying to figure out why pyramids exist all over the world is kind of a duh question to me. The easiest way to have a tall structure is to have a wide base that narrows as it goes up.

I swear I saw a picture of the great pyramid from the mid/late 1800s where some of the limestone was still on it. Seems like an earthquake finally knocked the rest off.
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
2023-02-06 3:16:01 AM  
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AppleOptionEsc
2023-02-06 3:30:37 AM  
It's always nice to see the wackadoos come out when it comes to pyramids.
 
Concrete Donkey
2023-02-06 4:29:12 AM  

Micosavo: paulleah: Do some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.

That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.

Incorrect. No pharaoh was ever found in the three main pyramids at Giza. There are no hieroglyphics anywhere inside. All the walls are black and etched in soot and showing remnants of Hydrochloric acid.

Compare the pyramids with the Valley of the Kings and how ornate and decorated they are.

Do the Egyptologists really think that they spent 30yrs building a "burial tomb" and didn't bother to decorate the inside?

Also, maths is my jam. And the maths for the pyramids does not work out. 30 years to build it? 2.5million blocks? Well, the issue is not man power. The issue is 3D space. 30 yrs would require moving and placing 228+ blocks a day, most over 2.5tons (some almost 100tons). Based on current knowledge there was only one tributary off the Nile to deliver the blocks.

So how do you move 228 2.5ton blocks? 9.5 blocks an hour, 24/7, for 30yrs.

So either it took much longer than 30yrs, was built differently, or built by a previous Egyptian civilization.

Oh, and don't get me started on getting 100ton blocks on and off a wooden boat...


Apparently the world has been blessed since you didnt go into engineering.

Let us know when you figure out how much labor is saved with wheels, pullys and ramps you stupid racist bastard
 
emtwo
2023-02-06 5:37:49 AM  

Micosavo: paulleah: Do some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.

That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.

Incorrect. No pharaoh was ever found in the three main pyramids at Giza. There are no hieroglyphics anywhere inside. All the walls are black and etched in soot and showing remnants of Hydrochloric acid.

Compare the pyramids with the Valley of the Kings and how ornate and decorated they are.

Do the Egyptologists really think that they spent 30yrs building a "burial tomb" and didn't bother to decorate the inside?

Also, maths is my jam. And the maths for the pyramids does not work out. 30 years to build it? 2.5million blocks? Well, the issue is not man power. The issue is 3D space. 30 yrs would require moving and placing 228+ blocks a day, most over 2.5tons (some almost 100tons). Based on current knowledge there was only one tributary off the Nile to deliver the blocks.

So how do you move 228 2.5ton blocks? 9.5 blocks an hour, 24/7, for 30yrs.

So either it took much longer than 30yrs, was built differently, or built by a previous Egyptian civilization.

Oh, and don't get me started on getting 100ton blocks on and off a wooden boat...


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dryknife
2023-02-06 7:00:35 AM  
Why don't they restore them?
 
vespertilio-fecal psychosis
2023-02-06 7:21:28 AM  

Micosavo: paulleah: Do some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.

That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.

Incorrect. No pharaoh was ever found in the three main pyramids at Giza. There are no hieroglyphics anywhere inside. All the walls are black and etched in soot and showing remnants of Hydrochloric acid.

Compare the pyramids with the Valley of the Kings and how ornate and decorated they are.

Do the Egyptologists really think that they spent 30yrs building a "burial tomb" and didn't bother to decorate the inside?

Also, maths is my jam. And the maths for the pyramids does not work out. 30 years to build it? 2.5million blocks? Well, the issue is not man power. The issue is 3D space. 30 yrs would require moving and placing 228+ blocks a day, most over 2.5tons (some almost 100tons). Based on current knowledge there was only one tributary off the Nile to deliver the blocks.

So how do you move 228 2.5ton blocks? 9.5 blocks an hour, 24/7, for 30yrs.

So either it took much longer than 30yrs, was built differently, or built by a previous Egyptian civilization.

Oh, and don't get me started on getting 100ton blocks on and off a wooden boat...


There was a massive custom built harbor capable of offloading multiple vessels at a time, multiple work crews moving and placing blocks simultaneously, clear evidence of ramp systems and internal structures within the pyramid that likely served as locations for levers and pulleys, and records of pay for the workers along with clear evidence of their organization into competing teams. Furthermore, there are also evolutionary intermediates between the mastaba tombs of the original pharaohs to the pyramids of Giza. The mastaba becomes a step pyramid which gets smoothed off into a regular pyramid. All the intermediate stages exist including some showing that they learned the hard way, such as the bent pyramid and the Meidum pyramid. Also the majority of the mass of the pyramid is low down, so the problem of lifting blocks is nowhere near as bad as it seems.

If aliens did it they bust ass to make it look like it happened as a natural cultural evolution from earlier forms, and if a prior civilization did it they put huge effort into erasing evidence of their own existence. It's a fancy pile of rocks, FFS. No need to invoke anything but hairless apes with too much time on their hands who just discovered how to mass manufacture beer.
 
Skyfrog
2023-02-06 7:47:26 AM  

Micosavo: Also, maths is my jam.


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Marcos P
2023-02-06 7:50:14 AM  
hey guys we just traveled millions of light years with our intergalactic space ships lets build a giant monument out of farkin rock

                     -Xablorzioark Alien Cmdr.
 
debug
2023-02-06 8:58:02 AM  

Cyclometh: Yeah, but they were covered with smooth stone and granite capstones, so aside from being pyramidal, they looked pretty different from what we see today.

[external-preview.redd.it image 470x380]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidion


FTFA: "There's nothing at the top of the Giza pyramids today, but originally they hosted capstones - also called pyramidions - covered in electrum, a mix of gold and silver, according to Megahed."
 
eyeq360 [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 9:24:51 AM  

majestic: Trying to figure out why pyramids exist all over the world is kind of a duh question to me. The easiest way to have a tall structure is to have a wide base that narrows as it goes up.

I swear I saw a picture of the great pyramid from the mid/late 1800s where some of the limestone was still on it. Seems like an earthquake finally knocked the rest off.


Piles are more stable if the base is wide and the top is narrow. Plus the ancient Egyptians we're good with mathematics, so extending triangular numbers into a 3D concept wouldn't be that difficult.
 
eyeq360 [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 9:32:29 AM  

Micosavo: Oh, and the pyramids were built in reverse as regards quality and engineering. The oldest and first of the pyramids are the largest and best made and knowledge/quality/size of the pyramids went downhill from there.

How does that happen?


Maybe people realized that building giant pyramids made of stone required way too much resources and manpower, and they were visible targets for looters. Egypt had periods of instability and grave robbing was a profitable criminal enterprise. Building tombs in remote areas would have been much more cost effective, used less manpower and resources, and less conspicuous.
 
Tax Boy
2023-02-06 9:49:39 AM  
We already knew this from the Ubisoft documentary Assassin's Creed Origins

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LewDux [OhFark]
2023-02-06 10:06:18 AM  

DON.MAC: I think


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LewDux [OhFark]
2023-02-06 10:11:06 AM  

Tom Marvolo Bombadil: [Fark user image 602x461]


Warning: catnips
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Quantumbunny
2023-02-06 10:43:07 AM  

emtwo: Quantumbunny: Mikey1969: THIS is why I want a time machine. Pictures don't do these things justice, I want to see this first hand when it's in its prime.

Augmented reality, even just VR could give you absolutely excellent visuals, without infinite power requirements.

I get the feeling that you've never had actual sexual intercourse with a human being.


Because I gave a practical solution to the problem isn't of a fantastical one that requires physics to not apply?

Good burn
 
Pointy Tail of Satan
2023-02-06 11:26:49 AM  
This is wrong. There are many examples of remaining casing stones that were never removed. Yes, they are a lighter color than the interior stone, but hardly white.

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deadsanta
2023-02-06 11:58:14 AM  

Micosavo: Oh, and the pyramids were built in reverse as regards quality and engineering. The oldest and first of the pyramids are the largest and best made and knowledge/quality/size of the pyramids went downhill from there.

How does that happen?


It happens when you're wrong.  There is a clear progession of small, uneven, and poorly planned pyramids until the proportions, form and manufacturing issues are solved.  Then the size of the pyramid is just a function of the wealth and power of the Pharoah and dynasty.  Also there might have been cultural restrictions about trying to outdo Khufu, founder of the dynasty, like when you weren't allowed to built anything taller than the Cathedral in your local medieval city.  Finally, building pyramids was ruinously expensive for Egypt, as they wrecked their economy by diverting societal resources into nearly impossible projects, they had fewer resources to commit to future endeavors, until the whole idea becomes unworkable and the monumental project building becomes more in scale to national wealth and/or more utilitarian in function.
 
Skyfrog
2023-02-06 12:02:29 PM  

Pointy Tail of Satan: This is wrong. There are many examples of remaining casing stones that were never removed. Yes, they are a lighter color than the interior stone, but hardly white.

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I believe they were smoothly polished at the time though so they would have appeared brighter and more reflective.
 
deadsanta
2023-02-06 12:05:15 PM  

Pointy Tail of Satan: This is wrong. There are many examples of remaining casing stones that were never removed. Yes, they are a lighter color than the interior stone, but hardly white.

[Fark user image 801x543]


That's limestone that has weathered for over 5000 years, and most recently weathered the pollution of the early Industrial age's coal ash and acid fog/rain.  It looks nothing like it did when it was first quarried.
 
Diagonal [TotalFark]
2023-02-06 1:30:33 PM  

bikkurikun: Micosavo: paulleah: Do some_beer_drinker: they were definitely not tombs. no bodies were ever found in them. carry on.

That's because every burial chamber of every Pyramid was looted.  They really didn't start funding in-tact tombs until the Valley of The Kings.

Incorrect. No pharaoh was ever found in the three main pyramids at Giza. There are no hieroglyphics anywhere inside. All the walls are black and etched in soot and showing remnants of Hydrochloric acid.

Compare the pyramids with the Valley of the Kings and how ornate and decorated they are.

Do the Egyptologists really think that they spent 30yrs building a "burial tomb" and didn't bother to decorate the inside?

Also, maths is my jam. And the maths for the pyramids does not work out. 30 years to build it? 2.5million blocks? Well, the issue is not man power. The issue is 3D space. 30 yrs would require moving and placing 228+ blocks a day, most over 2.5tons (some almost 100tons). Based on current knowledge there was only one tributary off the Nile to deliver the blocks.

So how do you move 228 2.5ton blocks? 9.5 blocks an hour, 24/7, for 30yrs.

So either it took much longer than 30yrs, was built differently, or built by a previous Egyptian civilization.

Oh, and don't get me started on getting 100ton blocks on and off a wooden boat...

God, this Graham Hancock deliberately ignorant nonsense just infuriatingly moronic.  The only thing that sucks worse than Graham Hancock is the neckbeards who think they are suddenly egyptologists and know it better than the world's leading academics because they watched Graham Hancock and/or Ancient aliens and then go on to present this bullshiat as 'facts', because they know 'maths'.


Then there is the unqualified assumption that the pyramids are ginormous, solid blocks all the freaking way through rather than a few layers of bigold (tm) blocks with a lot of hammered clay, gravel, rip-rap, and stones filling in the center. It's hard on the outside, gooey on the inside. Sort of like my head. Or something like that. Where are my glasses!
 
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