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Large ramps kms in length. Similar to how Indians built most of their giant temples where btw worship happens to this day. Its easy to build large things on the
by jusp 9y ago
Large ramps kms in length. Similar to how Indians built most of their giant temples where btw worship happens to this day. Its easy to build large things on the backs of slaves but keeping culture alive for thousands of years....not just the monuments, takes much more than engineering thought.
- irrational 9y agoWell, the Egyptians managed to keep their culture alive for 3000+ years until the Muslim conquest.
- singularity2001 9y agoEgyptian culture survived the Hyksos, the sea people, the Persians, partly the Greeks and the Romans but was eradicated by Christian fanatics.
- irrational 9y agoSource? All the sources I look at say that Egyptian culture survived more or less intact until the Muslim conquest in the 300s.
- Taniwha 9y agoAnd yet Muhammad was born in 570, perhaps you're thinking of another 'Muslim conquest'
- apoorvkumar 9y agoHaha ... irrational indeed!
- scentoni 9y ago> Source? All the sources I look at say that Egyptian culture survived more or less intact until the Muslim conquest in the 300s. You should recheck your sources if they're telling you about Muslim conquests in the 300s.
- huxley 9y agoThe Egyptians didn't use slaves to build the pyramids http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-ht...
- cypherpunks01 9y agoGreat article, thank you!
- guhcampos 9y agoThe article does not say that. They seem to have implied this by mainly the evidence the builders ate a lot of meat, but their own assessing that the lodging was absurdly dense says otherwise. Sounds quite a bit like cherry picking to me, which is not uncommon for people working on the same subject for decades. At some point you are just too willing to accept your own confirmation bias, no matter how trained you are. And this is just me guessing from the article, there are other reasons to think twice before reaching such conclusions. The concept of "slave" is not as set in stone as we think, it's a generalization of a broader concept. And cattle is not necessarily for the rich: livestock is a pretty good way to store energy. In hot places like the tropics, vegetables go ripe very quickly so the logistics of feeding an army of builders with crops might have been difficult enough that it was just easier to feed the crops to cattle then move the cattle to the people.
- Keeeeeeeks 9y ago> Egyptologist Mark Lehner, an associate of Harvard's Semitic Museum, is beginning to fashion an answer. He has found the city of the pyramid builders. They were not slaves. Idk man, seems like the article does claim that the builders weren't slaves. Also, given the way trophic pyramids work, feeding crops to a cow and feeding the cow to people results in a loss of energy compared to feeding the people plants. By that, I mean it's more expensive to raise a cow and use it to feed 10 people than it would be to give those 10 people crops.
- apoorvkumar 9y ago