Spirit of Babuthep: By Isis' blessed titties I should've gone into the copper business...
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"You have stacked rocks far better than they've ever been stacked before."
Wow that irrationally irked me lol. Grand logistics project. But sure, looking like that, we barely moved - stack bricks better than before, pour concrete that ancient Rome was already using.
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The thing about the pyramids is they're probably the greatest feat of athleticism in history and they're from way at the beginning. Moving those huge stones with basically nothing but human muscle, lifting some of them over a hundred meters high. Archeology at the workers' village at the Giza necropolis suggests the pyramid builders ate very well, evidence of fish, meat, vegetables, and literally monumental amounts of bread and beer. I think that was a requirement; you can't move that much stone that far by hand and foot without feeding your crew a power diet. A diet prepared by equally massive teams of women working in industrial scale kitchens.
I love this: The men who built the pyramids worked in a hierarchy of teams. And these teams kind of competed, "we moved more stone than you" sort of thing. The biggest groups were Gangs, they would have cool team names like Friends of Khufu or Drunkards of Menkaure. Each Gang contained five smaller "phyles" or tribes which usually had a directional name, often taken from Egyptian nautical terms, what would translate today into starboard or prow. Phyles were further divided into 10 or 20 man groups of similar workers, so you'd have a team of haulers, a team of stonecutters, each would have single concept word names like Endurance or Perfection.
That sort of thing brings these men to life for me in a similar way to Pompeiian graffiti like "I shat well here" or "The waitress is a great fuck" does. I mean, these dudes named their team The Drunkards of Menkaure, we tell work hard play hard jokes like that to this day. You think those guys raised more hell on or off shift?
Never before have I seen a more perfect representation of how I feel about people who attribute ancient artifact and builds to aliens simply because they can't figure out how humans were able to do said things.
We might not know who exactly did it, but there is a shortlist, and Babuthep sure as fuck isn't on it.
Brendan frasier will fight babuthep in the new mummy movie
I think the name has been bastardized over time; in modern references he's more commonly referred to as "Bubba Ho-Tep"
I dont think anyone believes it was aliens
Definitely aliens, Goa'uld landing pads.
Far too many idiots believe the grifters known as "ancient alien theorists".
The mystery of the pyramids really comes down to that pointy tip that no longer exists.
See, a flat topped pyramid is actually fairly straightforward to build. A pointy pyramid with straight sides is not.
None of the current mainstream theories of pyramid construction can actually account for that pointy tip and the very large stones found just below said tip.
An external ramp would eventually be made of multiple times more material than the pyramid you were working on, and would cover the sides, making the alignment of the tip impossible.
An internal ramp can not put a tip in place. Also, recent experiments with placing nutrino detector all around the Great Pyramid have given us a sort of MRI, and there's no evidence of an internal ramp.
In both cases, alignment and straightness are basically impossible.
It's this gap in knowledge that the grifters use to make people dumber, while taking their cash.
Thankfully there's a fairly new theory of pyramid construction that actually explains everything fairly neatly.
You build a step pyramid with built in ramps that's larger than your final pyramid, then disassemble it from the top down as you smooth the sides. You don't have to align the tip with the sides, you just make the tip perfect and maintain that angle as you work downward.
The removed stone then gets used in the next, smaller, pyramid. And since the Egyptians absolutely loved recycling things into other things, it makes sense on a cultural level as well.
I bet that a bunch of stupid people do.