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This is what the pyramids used to look like. They were covered with polished white limestone and had a peak made of pure gold. (lemmy.today)

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[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

A gold top wouldn’t even be visible from the ground on a large polished white pyramid.

The point of pyramids was of religious nature, it was to be closer to the sky and allow dead pharaohs to go in their version of the after life so it's likely that the gold wasn't to be pretty but for a religious something

Also, i wonder if it was really gold or something else because gold was and is expensive as fuck, maybe a gold alloy

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If it was for religious reasons they would definitely use pure gold

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Just looked on wikipedia and they say

"... and were sometimes covered with plates of copper, gold or electrum." (electrum is an alloy of gold and silver IIRC)
Which makes a lot of sense, gold was and is very expensive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidion