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The pyramids are pretty old.
by itake 3y ago
The pyramids are pretty old.
- praptak 3y agoI don't believe there was any intention to deliver a message to future humans (except maybe "don't rob this grave or else") when they were built. Or at least we don't have any evidence for that.
- gizajob 3y agoI find quite an opposite message to that, more "look how impressive this monument is, it cannot be destroyed and will serve as a time capsule to us whenever you encounter it". Great Pyramid isn't a tomb.
- lordnacho 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza "The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid and served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom."
- gizajob 3y agoYet no body of Khufu or anyone else was found inside it. It's been attributed to Khufu, and there's decent reasons to doubt that attribution (really not getting all Graham Hancock here, but there's nevertheless little to indicate it's a tomb. Yeah other pyramids are tombs with sarcophagi but the Great one is absent of that - no body, no tomb.)
- memefrog 3y ago[dead]
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoDepends on how you think of it. It was built to last forever, a monument to the person interred; a message to the future saying "I existed". Didn't they also contain the interred people's history and achievements? Maybe not a time capsule in that sense of the word, but still.