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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  i think historical accounts show that they were fairly paid professionals, probably should have paid more, but definitely not slaves.

  i think a recent discovery showed that they flooded the area, and used boats to bring the limestone blocks straight to the pyramid. highly technical and professional work.

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  • fartsparkles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Great BBC article on this.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ll assume it’s a good link, but I rather not give BBC any clicks, given how pro genocidal they are

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  • sydd@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What about the ones on top?

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      they had to pull them with ramps, but it’s insane that they flooded the area and brought the blocks straight to the pyramid.

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• Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m not sure “expendable labor” is really the most accurate description. My understanding was that the pharoahs hired skilled artisans and craftsmen during winter seasons in exchange for food. They didn’t use slaves to build the pyramids, to my understanding

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  • homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    to be fair, this meme is so very old (20-25 years old, possibly older), it probably predates that understanding which is only about 14 years old.

    although there has long been the belief that the Ancient Egyptians couldn’t reasonably have built such incredible architectural wonders so long ago without the use of skilled laborers rather than slaves (as widely believed due to myths and legends), it wasn’t really conclusively proven until a number of archeological discoveries were made around 2011-2012, IIRC.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I had to check… Asterisx and Cleopatra had some dialog about how they weren’t slaves¹… Published in 1970.

      I’m not sure knowledgeable people ever thought they were built by slaves.

      1 - The author had some serious academic credentials.

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• Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You can do anything at Zombocom

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