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That's basically what happened to the pyramids in Egypt. They were smooth-sided for over 3000 years.
by spauldo 1y ago
That's basically what happened to the pyramids in Egypt. They were smooth-sided for over 3000 years.
- fakedang 1y agoEven more wild is the fact that when we're talking villagers looting the smooth-sided pyramids for stone, we're talking about the Roman Republic era and around the end of the Ptolemaic dynasty under Cleopatra.
- spauldo 1y agoMost of them survived well into the middle ages. There was an earthquake in the 14th century that loosened the casing stones and knocked quite a few loose. After that is when looting the stones really took off.