re: Crazy to think when the Pyramids were built

Why did you respond to me and say what I already said about slaves not building the pyramids?

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Not sure we're really that far ahead of the classical period.

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I know most academics/Egyptologists think he's a crackpot, but I really enjoyed the first Rogan podcast with Graham Hancock. That's the only episode I listened to almost the whole thing.

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I love how you made this exact same quote in this thread twice, 4 years apart

Once I did I re-read it and within that reading, I saw your new post with "crackpot" used again.

I have to be careful saying this b/c LSU Coyote has ruined it, but Randall Carlson is awesome.

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When Bonaparte visited Giza during his Nile expedition of 1798 (the story goes), he determined to spend a night alone inside the King’s Chamber, the granite-lined vault that lies precisely in the centre of the pyramid. This chamber is generally acknowledged as the spot where Khufu, the most powerful ruler of Egypt’s Old Kingdom (c.2690-2180 BC), was interred for all eternity, and it still contains the remains of Pharaoh’s sarcophagus—a fractured mass of red stone that is said to ring like a bell when struck.

Having ventured alone into the pyramid’s forbidding interior and navigated its cramped passages armed with nothing but a guttering candle, it's said that Napoleon emerged the next morning white and shaken, and thenceforth refused to answer any questions about what had befallen him that night. Not until 23 years later, as he lay on his death bed, did the emperor at last consent to talk about his experience. Hauling himself painfully upright, he began to speak—only to halt almost immediately with the words you quoted: “Oh, what’s the use. You’d never believe me.”

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What is that from? I was actually going to ask the Book Board this week for a good book on Napoleon

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The Romans probably had no idea exactly how old the pyramids were.

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Do we know for certain?

Not sure. I found it on reddit

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Are the hieroglyphs for this work order on the wall or did I miss it? Doesn't sound realistic, the pows and slave workforce were free, they would've used that first.

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no it’s called archaeology and historical research. This is how the Egyptian society worked in the old kingdom

Growing season - stay on farm and grow your crops

Harvesting season - harvest your crops and prepare area for flood

Flooding season - travel into city, sell crops and other goods, possibly get conscripted into government service to build a monument, bridge, dam, etc…

Why were they willing to do this?
1. They believed (or at least were told to believe) that the pharaoh was a literal god on earth who would be an actual god upon his death. Doing work for a god was a good way to gain favor and prosperity for your family

2. The pharaohs were absolute dictators, they controlled all aspects of society and you could face severe punishment for you and your family if you did not comply


This system was unsustainable and is why the commoners eventually rebelled leading to the so called intermediate period of turmoil (a historical way of saying we don’t know what happened in this period because records didn’t survive/haven’t been discovered). Eventually this period of turmoil gave way to the Middle Kingdom which still had god king pharaohs but they didn’t have quite as much power over everyday life.

I listened to a comedian talk about the pyramids being built by Mexicans the other day. He had valid points.

1. The aliens conspiracy theorists talk about were indeed illegal aliens

2. Aren't there pyramid style structures in Mexico already (mayans)??