'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza

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.

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Re:'Big Void' Identified in Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza by rafiki6 on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:59PM (#15614243)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-...

They weren't slaves

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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.

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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.

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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.

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