They landed, said "let's build some huge triangles for shits and giggles" and then they fucked off.
3000 years ago they were already 1000 years old.
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This is a repost from a 1000 years ago.
This was around the time the Memeluk Sultanate ruled Egypt, yeah?
Now they only visit occasionally for surprise proctology exams.
They're only checking if our civilization is still at the talking-out-of-our-asses stage.
"it's a little warm for October" - aliens probably
The "great wonders" of this world typically derive from some form of slavery/exploitation.
Skilled paid stonemasons were required to build the tight fitting surface stones of this one, so some of the laborers were definitely not slaves, howeveri believe you're correct I doubt the sled drag team was salary.
Why can't you have skilled slaves?
By all accounts the builders of the pyramids actually had nice places to live, and a higher quality of life than most Egyptians. In truth there is literally no evidence they were slaves outside of the story of Moses.
In truth there is literally no evidence they were slaves outside of the story of Moses.
Of course there's no evidence. It happened more than 4000 years ago and there aren't many writings left. No evidence doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Ah, going the George Bush route that the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. So, let me tell you about the unicorns on Mars. What, you can't prove they're not there.
Seriously though, we do have quite a few records from then since the Egyptian kings really wanted people to know about them. We also have archeological finds of where the workers lived. Also in them being given lavish tombs that regular Egyptians at the time didn't. This stuff is really not hard to look up.
No evidence doesn't mean it didn't happen.
that's what I tell about my homies about me having had sex.
maybe it wasn't worth teaching slaves how to properly build the pyramids and it was easier to get already educated citizens to build them
Nice try.
Everyone knows they were built using ancient trading cards.
I mean... Who else!
Goa'ulds
+1 for Star Gate reference!
Kree!
aaah - she's taking a photo. I was wondering what she was shoving in her face. The bottom part is already an ancient pic in itself.
Life is fair somehow. I'm sure that future Alien archeologists will imply our extinction to some unclear natural phenomenon, because
" No civilization would be so stupid to do all of that to themselves"
Oh so our ancestors real name was alien?
Fifty years later "Fred who?"
I lolz
Sooo ... How did they do it? Not with ramps. Not with triangular cranes. Not with aliens, so much is for sure, but how? Tell me.
Why couldn't it have been ramps?
They actually don't really know how they did it, there are the voices that say ramps would've been so enormous that they wouldn't have been practical in a realistic sense: https://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/khufu-pyramid/pyramid-theories.html There are supporters of the lever theory, even several different methods depending on the progress of the construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques?wprov=sfla1 But as I understand it as a complete layman ( my only qualification would be that my ex girlfriend was an egyptoligist) that the more they examine it, the more voices raise against a solely ramp method. The old egyptian were highly pragmatic & efficient, so I've heard, and the stones were gigantic, sand ramps are at least partly unpredictable & sand is not the stiffest construction material - sooo, I don't really know & as far as I know, science doesn't either, at least no exhaustive answer. So far
3D printer
Wet sand, along with pulleys and lots and lots of man power, and using the Nile to float stones from upstream to the building site. More complicated than that, but yeah.