• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    They didn’t have modern medicine and a solid understanding of nutrition in ancient times? No way!

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    5 months ago

    They used the area as a cemetery for nearly a millennium, starting in the 6th century BCE, centuries before the construction of Egypt’s pyramids.

    Wasn’t the Great Pyramid built around the 27th century BCE?

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      5 months ago

      Simultaneously, the slaves were well fed and the royals weren’t. It really sounds like too many deserts

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          5 months ago

          I’m confused. I didn’t mean anything by it. Have you not heard about the pyramid slaves being well fed?

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            5 months ago

            Have you not heard about the pyramid slaves being well fed?

            I mean if they did manual labour they would have to be well fed as any slave doing manual labour. I fee like this statement is sus tho