3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work

Post by dr_dshiv » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:31 PM UTC

chrononaut wrote: post #215

jbandela1 wrote: post #112

As an aside, a lot of people are joking about the pyramids. However, 3200 years ago is 1200 BC which is New Kingdom. The pyramids were built in the Old Kingdom. When these workers were complaining, the Great Pyramid was already 1000 years old. (The bosses probably talked about how back in the day when their ancestors built the pyramids, workers were much tougher and dedicated)

As I find always interesting, we are as far to the Romans in history as the Romans were from the construction of the pyramids.

Post by paxys » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:34 PM UTC

chrononaut wrote: post #215

jbandela1 wrote: post #112

As an aside, a lot of people are joking about the pyramids. However, 3200 years ago is 1200 BC which is New Kingdom. The pyramids were built in the Old Kingdom. When these workers were complaining, the Great Pyramid was already 1000 years old. (The bosses probably talked about how back in the day when their ancestors built the pyramids, workers were much tougher and dedicated)

As I find always interesting, we are as far to the Romans in history as the Romans were from the construction of the pyramids.

Post by dr_dshiv » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:35 PM UTC

spiralx wrote: post #223

jamesfisher wrote: post #198

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cat excuses | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 67 ILL 49 WITH HIS BOSS 17 BREWING BEER 13 WITH AAPEHTI 8 WITH THE SCRIBE 6 MAKING REMEDIES FOR THE SCRIBE’S WIFE 5 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS MOTHER 5 OFFERING TO THE GOD 5 HIS WIFE WAS BLEEDING 5 FETCHING STONE FOR THE SCRIBE 4 WITH KHONS MAKING REMEDIES 4 SUFFERING WITH HIS EYE 4 OFF ABSENT 4 HIS DAUGHTER WAS BLEEDING 3 WITH HOREMWIA 3 WITH HIS BOSS DITTO 3 LIBATING TO HIS…

A lot of those are related to death: 5 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS MOTHER 2 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS SON 1 EMBALMING HORMOSE 1 EMBALMING HIS BROTHER 1 MOURNING HIS SON 3 LIBATING TO HIS FATHER 13 and I suspect most of these: 8 WITH THE SCRIBE 1 OFF ABSENT WITH THE SCRIBE 5 FETCHING STONE FOR THE SCRIBE 2 FETCHING STONE FOR QENHERKHEPSHEF 1 LIBATING FOR HIS SON 1 LIBATING FOR HIM 1 LIBATING 2 BURYING THE GOD 21 a…

Post by codedokode » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:40 PM UTC

KSPAtlas wrote: post #227

divbzero wrote: post #124

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Another phenomenon I’ve found curious is the cross-cultural definition of a week as roughly a quarter moon, and correlated names for days of the week. [1] Sunday Sun Sōlis Hēlíou 日曜日 Monday Moon Lūnae Selḗnēs 月曜日 Tuesday Mars Mārtis Áreōs 火曜日 Wednesday Mercury Mercuriī Hermoû 水曜日 Thursday Jupiter Iovis Diós 木曜日 Friday Venus Veneris Aphrodítēs 金曜日 Saturday Saturn Sāturnī Krónou 土曜日 [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N…

Polish doesn't use those names, but a different system: Poniedziałek (lit. After not working) Wtorek (not sure) Środa (also not sure) Czwartek (lit. the fourth) Piątek (possibly means drinking day?) Sobota (not sure) Niedziela (Not working)

Post by dleslie » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 11:40 PM UTC

dr_dshiv wrote: post #282

gregcrv wrote: post #250

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This is not true. https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-gre... There are plenty or records about the pyramid constructions, it was also proven that they were built by a paid voluntary workforce rather than slaves like most people believe.

Yeah, that papyrus is bonkers. Imagine what still exists out there in the desert!