Ancient Egyptian pyramids weren't built for who we thought, study suggests (www.livescience.com)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to archaeology@mander.xyz on 25 Mar 2025 04:15
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Drusas@fedia.io on 25 Mar 2025 04:25 next collapse

My first thought is whether they might be like the workers on the Great Wall of China, whose remains were entombed in it as they died.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 25 Mar 2025 17:07 collapse

Yeah, they very much thought you could take it with you, and “it” includes servants and slaves.

BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one on 25 Mar 2025 04:37 next collapse

For anyone who doesn’t read the article due to the dogshit clickbait headline: they were not built for Pharoah, but in fact built for your mom’s cavernous coochie

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 25 Mar 2025 16:53 collapse

What’s a Pharoah?

h3mlocke@lemm.ee on 25 Mar 2025 19:05 collapse

A litter of piglets.

BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one on 25 Mar 2025 20:53 collapse

No that’s what you call a group of law enforcement officers.

A pharoah is a unit of pharoahs numbering in quantities larger than one.

KevinFRK@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 2025 08:22 collapse

Human sacrifice, shabti traditions mutating, making sure the most likely tomb thieves were dead…

All seem more likely to me than letting peasants mooch off of your eternal life machine.