Makes sense if you think about it.
Logistics is hard, even more so in ancient times when the only “bulk capacity” freight would be using ships. Unless the Egyptians had developed trains much before anybody else, transporting all the stone to the pyramids would have been difficult. And you’d also have to carry food or other supplies daily.
Plus, if you’re going to the trouble of building a great tomb, why wouldn’t you want your ex-subjects to see it.Edit: see correction below
Uh… Do you think it looked like that ~2500 BCE when the pyramids where built? Cairo didn’t even exist at the time.
The closest „city“ was Giza (duh), which is miles away and looked like this around 1800 CE (!)
Of course they had a worker’s village next to the location, but that was it.
using ships
People knew how to build canals.
transporting all the stones would have been difficult
Yeah, that’s why people still haven’t found out exactly how they were able to built these things in the first place.
Ok yeah, I clearly didn’t do any reading at all. Thanks for correcting me.
Now I want to see a tv show where a character is like I’m dying of thirst and everyone is just looking at them and is like dude can we just go to McDonald’s already and the camera turns around and there in the McDonald’s parking lot 🤣
It would be even more real if one of those photos had a plastic bag flying through the air.
That first image and popular imagery in movies are starting to feel like a coordinated plot by the Egyptian tourist board to promote more mystique around these structures… a pyramid scheme, if you will
Take your upvote and get out.
Pizza the Tut
Giza the Hut
i knew of this but it’s insane every time. is that a golf course?
That’s both super unsurprising and super disappointing. Of COURSE they’re right next to civilization. I don’t know why I somehow bought the idea they’d be way out in the desert.🤦♂️
I don’t understand why people think it looked like that 4000y ago…
The closest settlement, Giza, looked like this in 1800 CE (!): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Description_de_l'Egypte_-_Etat_Moderne_-_Pl_16.jpg
You can look on a map how far it is to the pyramids from there…
There’s a reason people set up shop there multiple times through human history. Geographically it makes sense.
I don’t understand the facepalm. The pyramids didn’t build themselves, they are where they are because they are where civilization was. Have you seen the rest of Egypt? Not sure where you’d expect people to settle if not on the Nile and it’s flood plains, and not sure where you’d expect modern day Egyptians to move to.
Edit: good catch, I forgot that’s proven false now (see below)
I’ve traveled a lot of the world, including South Africa and Madagascar, but no I’ve never made it to Egypt.
The pyramids weren’t built with slave labour - common misconception.
Yeah, but I’d have expected the nearby cities to be like abandoned and broken for some reason.
literally everything ever “makes sense when you think abou it” it doesn’t mean that ut can’t be wondrous or something you could have fun with
The pyramids are way out in the desert. Cairo is also way out in the desert. Egypt is basically a desert with a river running through it.
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Oh thank god, a pizza hut! I’m saved after days of wandering lost in the Giza gift shop. What do you mean I must make a purchase to get a glass for water?
You’d have to be crazy to go to that Pizzahut, because I had a pizza from some local shop that day I went to the pyramids and it’s literally the most memorable part of that day.
It was, like, an Egyptian pizza. The dough was all flakey? It’s hard to explain, but Egyptian pizza >>> Chicago pizza.
I mean, Chicago Pizza is a pretty low bar. Laughs in New Yorker
That’s why I put three greater thans.
It’s not just better, it’s WAY, WAY better.
This is part of why pizza is one of my favourite foods. It’s so ubiquitous that it’s available in so many different places, but region specific variants crop up and it’s so cool.
Wirtual inbound.
I never realized how close to Cairo they were.
What’s with the object replacement character (“”)?
Either the site or your device cant display the correct thing. I have “obj” also and i am on an older phone. I am guessing its a pyramid emoji we are missing.
Is it showing up under my comment? I didn’t use any emojis if so.
Weird. Doesn’t show that at all in my end.
Did this comment reproduce it? If so, I think I figured it out.
yes. what did you do?
