Another thought for the day

rrlund · Jan 15, 2014

“As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.”
¯ Henry David Thoreau,

Larry NEIL · Jan 15, 2014

I always "wonder" why they were ever built myself.

waltdavies · Jan 15, 2014

Yes but aren't you glad They did?
Walt

greygoat · Jan 15, 2014

Most of the ancient world was built by slaves !

60 acre hillside · Jan 15, 2014

If they needed to be built I am thankful they were the ones who did it.

D beatty · Jan 15, 2014

They are said to be tombs fot the egyptian pharaohs.

Russ from MN · Jan 15, 2014

I have always been amazed that they had a good enough food supply that they could dedicate that much time to building tombs! Most civilizations of that time spent all their time trying to feed themselves or stay warm. Although there is a huge burial mound somewhere near St. Louis MO, and another in Ireland.

oldtanker · Jan 15, 2014

Actually the current thought is that the pyramids were mostly built with hired labor in the off growing season.

So just how is hiring on to do a job degrading?

Slave labor as used by the Romans had little choice. It was work or die. And if a slave refused their death would be an example to the other slaves.

Rick

MARK ROBKE · Jan 15, 2014

I have read/heard the same thing. Mark

T in NE · Jan 15, 2014

I don't think staying warm was much of a problem. The annual floods along the Nile fertilized the soil and allowed for better crops than most other places at the time. And northern Africa hasn't really been a desert for all the long.

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