• Robomekk@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Weren’t each of the pyramids built by one pharaoh? Then each would be about one generation of work only?

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      4 days ago

      Work often persisted after a pharaoh’s death. These damn architects are never on-time and on-budget!

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    3 days ago

    That’s what I don’t get, like, why are people so quick to give aliens credit? Like, do they think people did not know about 3d triangles a few thousand years ago or something?

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      3 days ago

      it’s just racism. Nobody questions the colloseum or the parthenon. Anything cool built by brown people tho must be aliens.

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        13 hours ago

        Some people question Stonehedge, but that wasn’t built by Anglo-Saxons, so it still proves the rule.

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        3 days ago

        It’s funny, because the Greeks and Romans both regarded the Pyramids as exemplary demonstrations of Egyptian architectural ingenuity, and thought it reflected very highly on the Egyptians to have made them - at least on a technical level.

        The Roman writer Frontinus, in typical Roman fashion, admits it (and, for good measure, also the works of the Greeks) are impressive but impractical, and thus inferior to GOOD HONEST ROMAN ARCHITECTURE which does practical things like bringing water or giving public spaces for plays (please ignore all the useless Roman monuments).