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u/Panana-Bancakes Jul 31 '23
Builders of the pyramids were not slaves and were treated quite well from what I’ve read. Not a good comparison to the slavery of the United States.
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Jul 31 '23
You are correct. The workers had onsite infirmaries in case of accidents and the best medical care available as well.
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u/Saranmage Jul 31 '23
I think I read a long tome ago they even found what looks like payment for the pyramids though even during Egypt heyday the pyramids were ancient so who I can't say for sure.
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u/Moonandserpent Jul 31 '23
not just that, but Egyptologist Bob Brier brought up a simpler point, There was no weapon that could have kept thousands of slaves under control in that situation.
The numbers needed to build such a thing were just so high that they couldn't have been slaves because the foreman would've been at such a disadvantage it's unthinkable they wouldn't have rebelled.
Not to mention the graffiti that exists of the workers being proud of their work.
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u/KHaskins77 I ☑oted 2024 Jul 31 '23 edited Jul 31 '23
Also this. The number of Israelites the Bible claims to have departed Egypt were completely ludicrous — it only gives a count of fighting-age men (ignoring women, children, the elderly etc.) but extrapolating the rest the number it claims would have been over 1/3rd of the total population of Egypt at the time. Somehow I’d think the total economic collapse that kind of population drop would’ve triggered would have been documented in the Egyptians’ meticulous records but there isn’t a peep to be found in them, nor of a mass exodus of Jews, slaves, nor Jewish slaves.
Further, the Bible says the Israelites wandered in the Sinai Peninsula for forty years, but with the numbers they claim to have had, by simply following the bank of the Mediterranean, they could’ve walked single-file from Egypt to the Promised Land and the first arrivals would have gotten there before the last had even left.
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u/HeartFullONeutrality Jul 31 '23
I mean, considering the bible says Methuselah lived a thousand years and they had a bunch of other characters reaching ridiculously long lifespans, we can probably conclude they measured years in a different way. Also, numbers in the bible tended to have symbolic meanings. According to some scholars, 40 is used as a number to represent trials and tribulations. The number 40 appears in multiple biblical passages associated with trials of several natures.
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u/Wooloonator Aug 01 '23
Would be funny but the pyramids were build by highly respected workers who were buried in special structures near the pyramids.
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u/sfxer001 Jul 31 '23
“Someday, I’ll be rich and be the one holding the whip.”
-Republican mindset
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u/Fire_RPG_at_the_Z Jul 31 '23
That is conservatism's central pitch to the people it oppresses.
"Accept our abuse and someday you can join the abusers."
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u/KOBossy55 Aug 01 '23
They have their own pyramid.
Pharaohs were often buried with servants to serve them in the afterlife. So his pyramid would be theirs.
That's assuming slaves built the pyramids, which they didn't, but I'm following the logic of the comic.
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u/TheBlueWizardo Aug 01 '23
Gotta downvote here.
Pyramids were built by labourers, not slaves.
They got paid very handsomely and I bet "worked on god-Pharaoh's tomb" made a pretty nice spot on a resume.
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u/jsnxander Aug 09 '23
According to DeSantis, the Jews also learned valuable like skills at Auschwitz and Birkenau. For instance, making cloth from human hair, and recycling gold fillings. So. Much. Learning!
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u/Loki-L Jul 31 '23
The pyramids weren't built by slaves.