They landed, said “let’s build some huge triangles for shits and giggles” and then they fucked off.

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      Skilled paid stonemasons were required to build the tight fitting surface stones of this one, so some of the laborers were definitely not slaves, howeveri believe you’re correct I doubt the sled drag team was salary.

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          By all accounts the builders of the pyramids actually had nice places to live, and a higher quality of life than most Egyptians. In truth there is literally no evidence they were slaves outside of the story of Moses.

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            In truth there is literally no evidence they were slaves outside of the story of Moses.

            Of course there’s no evidence. It happened more than 4000 years ago and there aren’t many writings left. No evidence doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

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              Ah, going the George Bush route that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. So, let me tell you about the unicorns on Mars. What, you can’t prove they’re not there.

              Seriously though, we do have quite a few records from then since the Egyptian kings really wanted people to know about them. We also have archeological finds of where the workers lived. Also in them being given lavish tombs that regular Egyptians at the time didn’t. This stuff is really not hard to look up.

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              No evidence doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

              that’s what I tell about my homies about me having had sex.

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          maybe it wasn’t worth teaching slaves how to properly build the pyramids and it was easier to get already educated citizens to build them

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              All those unfinished pyramids around Egypt from people who were robbed of their chance to make their place in history.

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              It’s not like any other country was that keen on building pyramids, like ever. Which of the cultures and/or races they enslaved would have experienced pyramid builders to boot?

              Even in Egypt, building pyramids was a very niche hobby.

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    Life is fair somehow. I’m sure that future Alien archeologists will imply our extinction to some unclear natural phenomenon, because

    " No civilization would be so stupid to do all of that to themselves"

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    aaah - she’s taking a photo. I was wondering what she was shoving in her face. The bottom part is already an ancient pic in itself.

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    Aliens hate white people. Everyone else got incredible temples, statues and monuments from them. The whites only got anal probes.

    florida-cracker posadist-nuke

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    The real elephant-in-the-room is that wypipo tech comes from aliens

    wp have existed for almost 4000 years, but only went ahead of the rest of the world in the last 400

    Tesla was undebatably of alien origin, you simply need to look at his face. All of earth’s history is just extraterrestrial proxy wars, and we can barely even perceive, much less understand, the tools they use to fight them

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    Sooo … How did they do it? Not with ramps. Not with triangular cranes. Not with aliens, so much is for sure, but how? Tell me.

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        They actually don’t really know how they did it, there are the voices that say ramps would’ve been so enormous that they wouldn’t have been practical in a realistic sense: https://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/khufu-pyramid/pyramid-theories.html There are supporters of the lever theory, even several different methods depending on the progress of the construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques?wprov=sfla1 But as I understand it as a complete layman ( my only qualification would be that my ex girlfriend was an egyptoligist) that the more they examine it, the more voices raise against a solely ramp method. The old egyptian were highly pragmatic & efficient, so I’ve heard, and the stones were gigantic, sand ramps are at least partly unpredictable & sand is not the stiffest construction material - sooo, I don’t really know & as far as I know, science doesn’t either, at least no exhaustive answer. So far

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      Wet sand, along with pulleys and lots and lots of man power, and using the Nile to float stones from upstream to the building site. More complicated than that, but yeah.