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Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by eponeponepon on Thursday November 02, 2017 @02:13PM (#15612796)
Not at all. Most of the pyramids, and many many other burials were ransacked by graverobbers and scavengers in antiquity - in a lot of cases, even while there were still pharaohs. It's assumed that a lot of them were robbed immediately, by the same workers who built them - in fact, even as early as the Middle Kingdom, there was a thriving trade in robbed grave goods for the explicit purpose of reuse in another burial, so it's far from uncommon to find people interred with spells on papyri that are centuries older than them, but have had the original owner's name scratched out and the new one inserted. If anything, the respect shown for the Giza complex in the last hundred years or so is the exception in its history. Heck, one of the two smaller pyramids has a huge hole in the side from where a 16th or 17th century caliph tried to demolish it.

Essentially, humans have always been garbage.

Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by alexandersingh on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:59AM (#15617157)
Or, humans have always had to focus on their own self-preservation and only recently have we had the luxury to care for the past at the expense of the present.
Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by namarie on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:10AM (#15618884)
What good would destroying a pyramid do in regards for self-preservation?
Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by triangleman on Sunday November 05, 2017 @01:39PM (#15630824)
There's gold in there!
Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by FireBeyond on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:36PM (#15614063)
> by the same workers who built them

who were, by and large, slaves ...

> Essentially, humans have always been garbage.

I don't really consider them too garbage-y for trying to give even a little F.U. to their masters.

Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by rafiki6 on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:59PM (#15614243)
Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by adrianratnapala on Thursday November 02, 2017 @10:21PM (#15616234)
If I remember my old books correctly, they were not slaves, they were peasants who were paying tax as labour instead of money or produce. Like conscription, but for civilian work.

So there is still compulsion here, and the workers would often have had similar emotions and incentives as slaves. The fact that the workers had more freedom probably gave them more ability to act on that than if they had been proper slaves.

Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by Bromskloss on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:34AM (#15617076)
> they were peasants who were paying tax as labour

When you put it like that, it sounds an awful lot like slavery.

Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by kagamine on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:04AM (#15617681)
Sounds like my job, my life. IN the grand scheme of things, nothing much has changed in millennia.