It is certainly more plausible than hypotheses like the ancient aliens and lizard people, but the idea that slaves built the Egyptian pyramids is no longer true. It came from the creative reading of the Cecil B. DeMille Spectacle of Old Testament stories and technology, and was a classic attitude used by slave apologers. The concept “has been bothering Egyptian scholars for centuries,” writes Eric Betts. Discover. However, he adds, emphasizing that “slaves did not build pyramids.” Who did it?
The evidence suggests that, as explained by the Veritasium video above, they were constructed by the power of skilled workers. These were executives of elite construction workers who were well-bred and housed during their stints. Includes “many Egyptian scholars” Archaeologist Mark Lehnerwhich unearthed the Giza worker city, “The pyramids… subscribe to the hypothesis that they were built by a rotating workforce in a modular, team-based organization,” Jonathan Shaw is writing for Harvard magazine. Graffiti discovered on this site identifies team names such as “Khufu’s Friends of Khufu” and “Drunkards of Menkaure.”
The excavations also found “an incredible amounts of cow, sheep and goat bones. “Even if they ate meat every day, it’s enough to feed thousands,” Liner suggests that workers were “edible like royalty.” Another excavation by Reiner’s friend Zahi Hawas, an Egyptian archaeologist and expert on the great pyramids; Found a worker’s cemetery at the foot of the pyramidmeaning that the dead were buried in places of honor. This was an incredibly dangerous job, and those who took it were praised and recognized for their achievements.
The workers also had the duty the Egyptians owed to the people above them, and ultimately their pharaohs. But it was not a financial obligation. Liner explains what the ancient Egyptians called Backa kind of feudal obligation. While there It was Egyptian slaves, the pyramid builders, probably like the Amish, he says, and performed the same kind of mandatory joint labor as barn-raising. In that context, when you look at the great pyramid, you have to say, “This is barn hell!” ”
Evidence excavated by Leaner, Hawas and others “has taken a serious blow to the Hollywood version of the pyramid building,” Shaw wrote. Skills to build such structures over 4,000 years ago. it’s not. Veritasium describes the incredible feat of moving and transporting the outer stones, moving and transporting them, without carrying the 620-mile pyramid granite nucleus from the quarry to Giza.
The ancient Egyptians were able to plot instructions on the compass, but no compass. They were able to create the right angles and levels and therefore had the skills necessary to design the pyramid. How about digging 2 million blocks of yellow limestone in the Great Pyramid? As we know, this was done by a skilled workforce. The skilled workforce quarryed “a stone worthy of the Olympic swimming pool every eight days” for 23 years and constructed the Great Pyramid, says PBS’s Joe Hanson It’s okay to be smarter The video above. They did so using the only metal available: copper.
While this may sound incredible, modern experiments show that this amount of stone can be moved using technology available to teams of 1,200-1,500 workers, and technology available to the same number of archaeologists who believe they are on site during construction. The limestone was directly quarried at the site (in fact, the sphinx was mostly dug from Earth, rather than built on it). How did the stone move? Egyptian Scholar at the University of Liverpool I think they might have found the answerlamps with stairs and a series of holes may be used as pulley systems.
Learn more about the myths and reality of Egyptian pyramid builders It’s okay to be smarter “Who created the pyramids, the video from Part 1 above.
Note: Previous versions of this post were published on our site in 2021.
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