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Re:A coherent story of Stonehenge may be beginning to emerge by sbmassey on Thursday July 20, 2017 @04:12PM (#14815865)
Well, if he was a monarch before writing had been developed, he would have had a hard time putting his name on it.
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Re:A coherent story of Stonehenge may be beginning to emerge by fluxby on Thursday July 20, 2017 @04:40PM (#14816098)
He would have had even harder time designing the pyramid
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Re:A coherent story of Stonehenge may be beginning to emerge by deepsun on Thursday July 20, 2017 @05:25PM (#14816426)
Well, children can design pyramids using sand.
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Re:A coherent story of Stonehenge may be beginning to emerge by fluxby on Thursday July 20, 2017 @05:47PM (#14816589)
Yeah. Only those pyramids are about knee high and last for about a day. :) The great pyramid stood for at least 5000 years.
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Re:A coherent story of Stonehenge may be beginning to emerge by deepsun on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:51PM (#14843463)
You said "design", not build. My point is that designing pyramid is not really that hard. Building it is totally different thing (but still doable by thousands of uneducated slaves).
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