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Believe it or not, no aliens were likely involved! Just some very smart humans and a massive amount of labor.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Because, again, it's kind of hard to argue against what they literally carved into a rock.

Not arguing with you here, cuz I have no dog in this fight, but you're seemingly ignoring the possibility of the emperor bragging about ~~crowd size~~ the number of slaves workers utilized?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean, he could lie about it, but is there really any doubt a pharaoh could conscript a few hundred guys?

It's just an easy, obvious solution, and probably the one they used because they weren't dumb. We also have a lot of surviving paperwork from the organisation of pyramid building, including things like worker's comp.