Isn’t there also writings from this time describing how “kids don’t listen anymore” and that “society is doomed” or something?
Ahhh, the human condition doesn’t really change. It just restyles itself.
3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
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Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
> (The bosses probably talked about how back in the day when their ancestors built the pyramids, workers were much tougher and dedicated) They likely didn't. The Egyptians recorded many things, including excuses for missing work, with incredible detail. They never once recorded how they built the pyramids. Either religious/spiritual/ritualistic reasons prevented them from doing so, or they didn't build them. Either w…
> or they didn't build them. What are you implying here, exactly? That humans didn't build them at all?
I was suggesting the possibility that they didn't build them. It wouldn't be the only time that a civilization set roots upon the remains of a preceding civilization.
That said, a sibling content to yours provided recently discovered evidence that the quarrying of stone for the pyramids was recorded.
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who knew that Egypt was so progressive that guys can take off when their wife or daughter has a period.
Maybe they, like in some Abrahamic religions to come later, considered women "impure" when they had the period, and this somehow translated to the men in the household? Wild speculation, of course.
I think it's more likely that the men had to take over household tasks while their wives were on the rag.
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
> (The bosses probably talked about how back in the day when their ancestors built the pyramids, workers were much tougher and dedicated) They likely didn't. The Egyptians recorded many things, including excuses for missing work, with incredible detail. They never once recorded how they built the pyramids. Either religious/spiritual/ritualistic reasons prevented them from doing so, or they didn't build them. Either w…
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.
That describes a project receiving pyramid facing stones quarried from white Tufa limestone.
But I doubt there is any indication whether this was for maintenance work, or original construction.
Pharaohs were always embarking on patch-up and upgrade projects on ancient stuff, and tagging everything they touched with their personal cartouches (often having their predecessors' chiseled out, first). So it is very hard to know who really built what, or when. The Sphinx is officially ascribed to a Pharaoh who leaned a stela on it bragging about maintenance work he had ordered (a thing there are also a lot of).
But they never tagged pyramids.
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Said nobody on their death cot ever, “I wish I’d spent more time carving hieroglyphs down at the Pharoah’s tomb!” That actually may not be true. Pharaoh was a religious figure, considered to be god on earth. He was also the embodiment of Osiris, the god of the afterlife, and Egyptians' conception of the afterlife was linked to Pharaoh, and their prospects for the afterlife were linked to how close they were to Phar…
Such ridiculous, delusional devotion is for the clergy. The whip is for the slaves.
The workers were skilled artisans who were paid for their labor. I imagine using your skills to honor the embodiment of god on Earth while being paid would be a pretty good gig.
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#296As 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)
> (The bosses probably talked about how back in the day when their ancestors built the pyramids, workers were much tougher and dedicated) They likely didn't. The Egyptians recorded many things, including excuses for missing work, with incredible detail. They never once recorded how they built the pyramids. Either religious/spiritual/ritualistic reasons prevented them from doing so, or they didn't build them. Either w…
Maybe the pyramids are the records and the instructions…
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting that the dates are "Month 3 of Summer, Day 24" etc. The curious bit to me being the enduring use of 4 distinct seasons, when there are obviously other ways to mark a year. Is anyone aware of a culture that did/does not have exactly 4 seasons?
Apparently the Sami (Lapps) have/had 8 seasons. https://www.amazon.co.uk/People-Eight-Seasons-story-Lapps/dp...
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#298As 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.
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.h...
Provides a nice representation of such events. Very insightful!
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#299We're effectively looking at somebody's notebook from 3200 years ago. Makes me wonder what our descendants would think if they were looking at our old notebooks and random text files in the next 3200 years.
They won't see anything because we store everything digitally. They will assume civilization suddenly lost the ability to write anything down.
Re: 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
#300As 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)
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