• umbrella@lemmy.ml
    ·
    6 months ago

    i think the people saying its a mystery just didnt want to admit it was slave labour

    • Bay_of_Piggies [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      6 months ago

      But it wasn't slave labour. It was constructed by highly skilled craftsman who seemingly enjoyed better living standards than their non-pyramid constructing equivalents.

      • Liz@midwest.social
        ·
        6 months ago

        They were paying their taxes to the state in labor, which is probably where the slavery misconception/interpretation comes from.

        • keepcarrot [she/her]
          ·
          6 months ago

          I assumed it was from the Moses story being one of the main cultural sources for ancient egypt

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzM
      ·
      6 months ago

      Nah, it's just good old fashioned legacy colonial racism.

      https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/pseudoarchaeology-racism/

      https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/did-aliens-build-the-pyramids-and-other-racist-theories