Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
by alexandersingh on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:59AM
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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
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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
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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
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> 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
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-...
They weren't slaves
Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza
by adrianratnapala on Thursday November 02, 2017 @10:21PM
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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
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> they were peasants who were paying tax as labour
When you put it like that, it sounds an awful lot like slavery.
Essentially, humans have always been garbage.