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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 122 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just because they didn't have modern technology doesn't mean they didn't have any technology. They could have used Skype for videoconferencing.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 11 points 1 day ago

They used RealVideo back in the day

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[–] claimsou@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

It was a Pyramid scheme!

[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You remember as you kid you might have stacked rocks or Lego bricks?

They basically did that with really really big rocks.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

If you think about it, we never stopped.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oh. That makes sense.

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

According to our internal call and subsequent meetings, we need to leverage the most recent rock technology in order to raise the level of productivity and the scalability of our pyramid business.

#productivity #teambuilding #notapyramidscheme

Signed: CEO of Egypt. Inc of pharaoh enterprises.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Every time I watch that video I die inside a bit more. I've been in too many meetings like that.

[–] Sillyglow@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Whips. Lots and lots of whips.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

While Egypt did practice slavery, evidence suggests the pyramids were built by well-fed craftsmen.

I know BBC isn't the best source, but it's fine for this purpose: https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-by-slaves

[–] SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why is the BBC not a good source?

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

State-run media with a conservative bias (despite the conservatives being their greatest threat). They're fine for this type of reporting, but they immediately roll over whenever a conservative accuses them of reporting reality, and any reporting on a perceived enemy is hilariously distorted.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Conservatives complain about biased reporting by the BBC constantly. It isn’t perfect, but they are doing an okay job mostly.

[–] skepller@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like you mentioned, Ancient Egypt did have slavery, so even if there's evidence of temporary villages for paid workers, it's very hard to believe slaves were also not involved as well on projects of this scale.

Even on the hardly off chance that there were 0 slaves near the pyramid, the whole material gathering and transport job to the pyramid site was an insanely huge amount of labour as well.

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[–] centipede_powder@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Where theres a whip theres a way

[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They planned ahead of decades of work rather than the next quarter

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apparently, Giza had 20,000 laborers in addition to 16,000 support staff working on the pyramid over 20 to 30 years.

The California High Speed Rail is the only thing comparable in the USA and that has only required 15,000 jobs since 2015.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The difference is the pyramids exist

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 45 points 2 days ago

They used the oldest trick in the book, wage theft

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The daily scrum probably helped

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[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

Must be aliens.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

“PYRAMID.AI - Where eternity meets innovation^TM^

We’re not just stacking stones, we’re building the blockchain of eternity.

Legacy monuments are stuck in the past with zero data, zero scalability, and zero cloud integration, while humanity still lacks a truly iconic, scalable, and AI-optimized monument for the Web0 era. PYRAMID.AI is leveraging proprietary AI-driven algorithms to design, optimize, and construct next-gen pyramids at scale. With our neural net, you can…”

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[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They had slaves. A lot of slaves.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 44 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The pyramids being built with slaves is largely incorrect.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

I suppose it was the hustler grindset

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The hell of one idea that just won't die. It was created out of thin air by sheer force of racist speculation, and known to be wrong for close to a century. Yet people still keep repeating it.

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[–] postnataldrip@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe they organised a pizza lunch for the survivors

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[–] miridius@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah they used slavery instead

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope you're not taking info from christian piblications. These were professionals who lived in a dedicated settlement.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The professionals did the building. The slaves did the brick-making for the building, and probably a lot of other low skill things too.

[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If we're talking about the pyramids the amount of quality building material in there was not sourced from slavery. Egyptian used slavery in farming and in army and logistic matters, but these heavenly buildings were all pretty important. What we do know is that salvery was also an outcome of tye conquest of other areas and cultures, so they forced them into what was considered egyptian culture at the time. And it's a damn long time span of many hundreds of years. We have so much documentation from the egpyptian kingdom. There are things that are more mysterious than the pyramids to me, temples and little oddities like the Osireion.

[–] BelTheBard@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

The masons and other specialized workers were paid, and there is a theory that many of the laborers living near Giza were paid, but no one actually knows if they were. What is known, is that slaves were used in that era, and thinking they weren't at least used in transportation of materials is naive.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Or daily scrum. But to be fair they did originate standup meetings.

[–] amotio@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The had whips, massive, massive whips.

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[–] bdjukemgood@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Never underestimate the power of water cooler interactions -C suite

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Let's gather together to figure out what went wrong. First off, hay they only waited for Microsoft technology, they could have built millions if not billions of these towers in coordination with the aliens who actually did all the work and while using our very secret 7th hand. You and I know about it but we must not let machines know.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Here come the slave and alien comments

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hear me out:

Alien slaves.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] wpb@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

They probably just scrum pokered really well

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