But it wasn’t slave labour. It was constructed by highly skilled craftsman who seemingly enjoyed better living standards than their non-pyramid constructing equivalents.
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umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
i think the people saying its a mystery just didnt want to admit it was slave labour
Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Liz@midwest.social 11 months ago
They were paying their taxes to the state in labor, which is probably where the slavery misconception/interpretation comes from.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I think it comes from the Bible. If you believe that everything in the Bible is true, and the Bible says that the pyramids were built by slaves…then they were built by slaves, dammit! You aren’t going to let some fancy-pants “professor” with their “science” tell you that the word of God is wrong, are you?!
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I assumed it was from the Moses story being one of the main cultural sources for ancient egypt
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe that’s what they mean when they say we couldn’t build the pyramids with modern technology. Not nearly enough slaves.
YoorWeb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Except they weren’t built by slaves…
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Nah, it’s just good old fashioned legacy colonial racism. www.sapiens.org/…/pseudoarchaeology-racism/
mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s dumb, I’m sure some think that because of racism but that can be said of anything. I think for most it’s due to the mystery about their construction that still remains and the seeming impossibility of moving huge numbers of truly massive blocks 6000 years ago. If it was an equivalent sized castle or something built with blocks that could be carried by one or two people there would be less motivation to look for crazy explanations.
Not everything is racist.