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Not at all. Most of the pyramids, and many many other burials were ransacked by graverobbers and scavengers in antiquity - in a lot of cases, even while there w
by eponeponepon 9y ago
Not at all. Most of the pyramids, and many many other burials were ransacked by graverobbers and scavengers in antiquity - in a lot of cases, even while there were still pharaohs. It's assumed that a lot of them were robbed immediately, by the same workers who built them - in fact, even as early as the Middle Kingdom, there was a thriving trade in robbed grave goods for the explicit purpose of reuse in another burial, so it's far from uncommon to find people interred with spells on papyri that are centuries older than them, but have had the original owner's name scratched out and the new one inserted. If anything, the respect shown for the Giza complex in the last hundred years or so is the exception in its history. Heck, one of the two smaller pyramids has a huge hole in the side from where a 16th or 17th century caliph tried to demolish it.
Essentially, humans have always been garbage.
- FireBeyond 9y ago> by the same workers who built them who were, by and large, slaves ... > Essentially, humans have always been garbage. I don't really consider them too garbage-y for trying to give even a little F.U. to their masters.
- rafiki6 9y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-... They weren't slaves
- adrianratnapala 9y agoIf I remember my old books correctly, they were not slaves, they were peasants who were paying tax as labour instead of money or produce. Like conscription, but for civilian work. So there is still compulsion here, and the workers would often have had similar emotions and incentives as slaves. The fact that the workers had more freedom probably gave them more ability to act on that than if they had been proper slaves.
- Bromskloss 9y ago> they were peasants who were paying tax as labour When you put it like that, it sounds an awful lot like slavery.
- kagamine 9y agoSounds like my job, my life. IN the grand scheme of things, nothing much has changed in millennia.
- alexandersingh 9y agoOr, humans have always had to focus on their own self-preservation and only recently have we had the luxury to care for the past at the expense of the present.
- namarie 9y agoWhat good would destroying a pyramid do in regards for self-preservation?
- triangleman 9y agoThere's gold in there!