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Side note- "Covered in gold" refers to only the very, very top portion."
Whether they truly were covered in gold or were polished so smoothly that they appeared to be to observers that had scribes on leashes, I could not tell you.
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[QUOTE=pyoko;466564]There is some evidence that the workers were not actually slaves, but "paid" volunteers, who were definitely free. Please don't ask for for a reference. It's too early in the morning.[/QUOTE
Thanks!! I looked it up, and you are correct. Hadn't read up on this in upteen years.
Thanks, that puts the pyramids in context: For the Egyptians to sustain their great civilization, they must have had a keen collective work ethic. The kind of people who embrace barn-raisings. So we have these people who are always looking to cooperate on some grand endeavor - usually agricultural - but then once a year the Nile cramps their style by flooding so they can't work land together. What's needed for these off-seasons is a "make-work" project similar to those of the Great Depression, where laborers may keep in shape and share their skills rather than sit idle. That there is a such a project is more important than the utility of the thing at completion.
also irrigation canals and holding ponds to capture the flood and use(release) it when needed
long considered one of the gifts of OSIRIS
who was also the seed god, plant him and resurrection happens
The only other realistic function for pyramids that I can think of (seeing as how the words water and pump have been offered), is as air wells (ie, condensers).
perhaps
there was a core pyramid workforce who laid out the designs and shaped the blocks
and the bulk of the construction happened during the Nile floods
when it was easier to move the quarried stone to the other side of the Nile, and
provided a make-work project that unified the population through a shared project and gave them something to do when they couldn't tend the fields.
what we do know is that the breweries and bakeries associated with the pyramids were able to produce far more product than could be consumed by the core workforce which were housed in a special village.
So the "jr" does stand for Junior?
How to get lots of gold? ... You trade. The Nile delta was a very fertile area for argriculture. Egypt was filthy rich. This was why it was such a succesful empire in the first place,... as long as the Nile kept overflowing the lands yearly, dumping tons of fertile soil.
Brains sucked? ... Without looking it up,... I recall they made a hole by drilling, through the nasal cavity and then pulled out the brains using specilized tools.
Brains Stored? ... Without looking it up,... I recall they removed all the organs and then stored them in little jars and burried them together with the mummy. The reason why the organs had to be removed is because of better preservation of the body.
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A link to the egyptian canopic jars, that stored the organs on wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopic_jar
Last edited by Estheria Quintessimo; October 4th, 2013 at 01:08 PM. Reason: added canopic jar link
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