That first image and popular imagery in movies are starting to feel like a coordinated plot by the Egyptian tourist board to promote more mystique around these structures… a pyramid scheme, if you will
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Now I want to see a tv show where a character is like I'm dying of thirst and everyone is just looking at them and is like dude can we just go to McDonald's already and the camera turns around and there in the McDonald's parking lot 🤣
It would be even more real if one of those photos had a plastic bag flying through the air.
Makes sense if you think about it.
Logistics is hard, even more so in ancient times when the only "bulk capacity" freight would be using ships. Unless the Egyptians had developed trains much before anybody else, transporting all the stone to the pyramids would have been difficult. And you'd also have to carry food or other supplies daily.
Plus, if you're going to the trouble of building a great tomb, why wouldn't you want your ex-subjects to see it.
Edit: see correction below
Uh… Do you think it looked like that ~2500 BCE when the pyramids where built? Cairo didn’t even exist at the time.
The closest „city“ was Giza (duh), which is miles away and looked like this around 1800 CE (!)
Of course they had a worker’s village next to the location, but that was it.
using ships
People knew how to build canals.
transporting all the stones would have been difficult
Yeah, that’s why people still haven’t found out exactly how they were able to built these things in the first place.
Edit: ugh, link is broken. 🙄 Scroll down to history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza
Ok yeah, I clearly didn't do any reading at all. Thanks for correcting me.
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The city grew a bit too in last 46 centuries since pyramids were built.
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