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This is not true. https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-great-pyramid-construction https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-g
by gregcrv 4y ago
This is not true.
https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-great-pyramid-construction https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-gre...
There are plenty or records about the pyramid constructions, it was also proven that they were built by a paid voluntary workforce rather than slaves like most people believe.
- dleslie 4y agoWell hey, that's news to me, and utterly fascinating! Thank-you.
- wly_cdgr 4y agoJust cos they were technically paid don't mean they weren't de facto slaves
- autoexec 4y agoSome things never change I guess...
- dr_dshiv 4y agoYeah, that papyrus is bonkers. Imagine what still exists out there in the desert!
- dleslie 4y agoWe can only hope there's one that details the process of the laying of the stones.
- dr_dshiv 4y agoOr the landing of the spacecraft :) Papyrus describing laying is unlikely unless it somehow related to accounting. But, do you know the Shabakti stone? That is supposedly a copy of a first dynasty papyrus by the Nubian pharaohs. While likely to be embellished, no reason not to believe. Helps describe the role of Ptah, the god of design.
- ncmncm 4y agoThat describes a project receiving pyramid facing stones quarried from white Tufa limestone. But I doubt there is any indication whether this was for maintenance work, or original construction. Pharaohs were always embarking on patch-up and upgrade projects on ancient stuff, and tagging everything they touched with their personal cartouches (often having their predecessors' chiseled out, first). So it is very hard to know who really built what, or when. The Sphinx is officially ascribed to a Pharaoh who leaned a stela on it bragging about maintenance work he had ordered (a thing there are also a lot of). But they never tagged pyramids.