Believe it or not, no aliens were likely involved! Just some very smart humans and a massive amount of labor.

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    6 months ago

    Because, again, it’s kind of hard to argue against what they literally carved into a rock.

    Not arguing with you here, cuz I have no dog in this fight, but you’re seemingly ignoring the possibility of the emperor bragging about crowd size the number of slaves workers utilized?

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      6 months ago

      I mean, he could lie about it, but is there really any doubt a pharaoh could conscript a few hundred guys?

      It’s just an easy, obvious solution, and probably the one they used because they weren’t dumb. We also have a lot of surviving paperwork from the organisation of pyramid building, including things like worker’s comp.

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      6 months ago

      So you’re saying that they used some unknown means of pulling big stones over rocks, but rather bragged about one they didn’t use even though it would have worked?

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        I’m not saying they didn’t have a lot of slaves, just thinking that they might be exaggerating slave count (as a metric of how powerful they were) while using something like this river (something innocuous that they wouldn’t need to brag about) to augment the bodies in use.

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          6 months ago

          You are making the mistake that slaves built Egyptian religious monuments. They did not. Egyptians did it, not their slaves. They did it out of religious obligation.

          Which makes sense. You don’t want slaves building your sacred places when slaves can sabotage things.