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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There was probably a slave band responsible for keeping rhythm. Probably a highly sought after role for a slave.

  Shit if I were a pharoh I’d definitely definitely want my own personal marching band everywhere I go. Be like fucking Prince Ali strolling into Agrabah.

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  • adb@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Apparently discoveries in the past few decades indicate that the people who built Giza pyramids were not actually workers.

    Lehner’s excavation of the worker’s village paints a clear picture of the pyramid laborers, highlighting a higher quality of life than previously believed. The workers had access to high quality food, were given proper burials, and lived under an organized labor system, where workers contributed to various societal and construction functions of their own free will. This archaeological evidence directly opposes previous beliefs that the pyramids were the result of intensive slave labor. This misconception began with Greek Historian Herodotus, and was later popularized in pop cultural depictions of the building of the pyramids.[16]

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza_pyramid_complex

    But yeah, I’d have a hard time believing there was no music or singing involved building those.

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    • raptir@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Giza pyramids were not actually workers.

      What were they then, hobbyist pyramid builders?

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  • kahjtheundedicated@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s good evidence that the people that built the pyramids were not slaves, but mostly skilled seasonal workers. There is evidence of the workers having luxurious foods and decent housing in something akin to dormitories. Seems like it’s still unknown if everyone was paid in actual coin, or if some or many were doing it more for religious purposes and were just treated to good food and accommodation while they were there, though some pay rates for some workers have been found in writing. But it does seem like they were mostly rotating crews rather than people living and working there for the years or decades it took to complete them.

    If they were slaves, they probably would have been there long term, and not afforded those luxuries.

    Wish I had a convenient source for all that, but it’s probably buried in academic journals and papers, but this bbc article includes some of it, and I have found some terrible ad-ridden articles mentioning pay rates and such. I just remember some of that from watching YouTube videos/documentaries tbh

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, I suspect it was both.

      They’re going to have lots of skilled, well-treated and well-paid workers there. The kind of workers doing the organizing, planning, directing, and finish work. Their equivalent of engineers, managers, foremen, skilled craftsman. I’m sure they could fill an entire dormitory with just decorative hieroglyphics carvers alone. A large pyramid would require hundreds, maybe thousands of these skilled/experienced workers.

      But then there’s also the 200 poor bastards hauling ropes to pull a giant stone slab up a ramp. And another 200 waiting at the bottom for their turn to haul the next one. And I’m betting those workers were not well-paid and well-treated. Those are the ones who were likely slaves, used basically as beasts of burden.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The pyramids were built by aliens, but plot twist, the aliens were enslaved by the pharoahs.

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  • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m imagining that scene from Futurama where the horn players are getting whipped by the Egyptian guards.

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    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One. Two. Three. Horn.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🎶 *Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
    I don’t wanna die, I’m a god
    Why can’t I live on? * 🎶

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, but that’s so cringe… No one would get that vibe but you.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pharohs were literally god kings. That ranks way higher than Hegseth. You don’t question that.

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• nuko147@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They had live music, you peasant.

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The space aliens had Spotify.

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• jlow@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, what’s life without Ajbl Speaker, I’d miss him (and good kerning).

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They sang spirituals. Swing loooooow, sweet chaaaariooot…

  In those days, that chariot story was still pretty fresh.

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• 10thGlyphix@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They were Pharoahs, so they could afford i higher quality speaker system. But they were also slave owners so they probably just had egypts got talent: forced labor edition being preformed in the background.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As far as we know, the pyramids weren’t built by slaves.

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