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As an aside, a lot of people are joking about the pyramids. However, 3200 years ago is 1200 BC which is New Kingdom. The pyramids were built in the Old Kingdom.
by jbandela1 4y ago
As an aside, a lot of people are joking about the pyramids. However, 3200 years ago is 1200 BC which is New Kingdom. The pyramids were built in the Old Kingdom. When these workers were complaining, the Great Pyramid was already 1000 years old.
(The bosses probably talked about how back in the day when their ancestors built the pyramids, workers were much tougher and dedicated)
- chrononaut 4y agoAs I find always interesting, we are as far to the Romans in history as the Romans were from the construction of the pyramids.
- solarengineer 4y agohttps://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.h... Provides a nice representation of such events. Very insightful!
- kogus 4y agoCleopatra was closer to the moon landings them to the building of the pyramids!
- jetbooster 4y agoShe can't have been that far away, didn't she live in Egypt? I'm fairly sure the moon is always further away
- ducttapecrown 4y agoI'm pretty sure the poster above you is referring to the differences between the number of letters in the following words: "CLEOPATRA" is closer to "MOON LANDING" than "THE BUILDING OF THE PYRAMIDS". Actually its the distance in time.
- pchangr 4y agoLived from 69 to 30 BC according to Wikipedia… definitely closer to th moon landing .. by almost a thousand years..
- SiempreViernes 4y agoI will read this comment as being intentionally, and gloriously, deadpan comedy.
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- azuredragon 4y agoWhat if you compare the coordinates in the galactic frame at their respective times?
- dr_dshiv 4y agoRoman Empire ended around 1450, so…
- paxys 4y agoI know people generally consider "Roman history" to be around the time of Julius Caesar, but the empire itself spanned over 1000 years.
- dogma1138 4y agoWhat people usually refer to the Roman Empire is the unified empire which was only around for 4 centuries. Heck pretty much past 286 AD is when the Roman Empire is no longer the classical Roman Empire. (Rome was no longer the capital, eastern / western split begins). Even a bit earlier if you want to consider the shift to the monotheism (not yet Christianity) of Sol as the line of demarcation. If you want to be utterly pedantic then yes the Eastern Roman Empire survived until 1453 aka the Fall of Constantinople. So more like 1500 years in total.
- dleslie 4y ago> (The bosses probably talked about how back in the day when their ancestors built the pyramids, workers were much tougher and dedicated) They likely didn't. The Egyptians recorded many things, including excuses for missing work, with incredible detail. They never once recorded how they built the pyramids. Either religious/spiritual/ritualistic reasons prevented them from doing so, or they didn't build them. Either way, they didn't record it and probably didn't speak of it.
- lumost 4y agoAlternately, the records were simply stored in a place that was destroyed or we haven't found yet.
- dleslie 4y agoA sibling comment to yours has noted a recently-discovered Papyri that details some scant information about quarrying limestone for Khufu's pyramid. https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-great-pyramid-construction https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-gre...
- istinetz 4y agoI appreciate the guts to seriously bring up ancient aliens on hackernews.
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