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> 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.
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Said nobody on their death cot ever, “I wish I’d spent more time carving hieroglyphs down at the Pharoah’s tomb!”
> 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…
Except one: They found a skeleton of a woman inside (one that is assumed to be) one of the older ones, with none of what they call "grave goods". Much more is still unknown about the pyramids than is known.
I feel sorry for the poor guys who never missed a day of work and gave their all to building that damn pyramid, 3200 years later nobody even knows who they were.
> But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity... Herostratus lives that burnt the Temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it... Who knows whether the best of men be known? Or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time? ~ Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia…
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I hope the parallel of SWEs working for Mega-Billionaires is not lost on the HN crowd.
"Billionaire" doesn't need a prefix yet and it'll certainly be a while before we get any megabillionaires, aka quadrillionaires. Probably not long before we start having megamillionaires, aka kilobillionaires, aka trillionaires though. Elon Musk's around a quarter of the way there.
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I once heard Canadians in Winnipeg joke there were but two seasons, Winter and Construction. I think this was in reference to road maintenance. In NZ these days I feel like we have two: Drought and Mudslide.
Actually it's 4: 1)Winter 2)More winter 3)Still winter and 4)Construction.
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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.
Just cos they were technically paid don't mean they weren't de facto slaves
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From my perspective, anything regularly periodic in nature is used to track time: the Sun (years, seasons, days, day/dusk) and Moon (months, weeks, King tides). Consider even the starfield (astrology: years, decades+). Four seasons makes sense in all of these contexts, and I hypothesize that there are a lot of patterns in nature that are well bucketed into 4 sequential, equal seasons. This is impossible for me to dem…
> I always like to imagine what life would be like if weeks were 3 days long. Or 11. I just love this topic. I especially like that you chose prime numbers. A week composed of a prime number of days will remain the smallest indivisible group of days that a culture will have.
I guess weeks don't exactly subdivide months, they're sort of separate systems?