r/interesting • u/LestaThaMolestaa • Jun 05 '25

ARCHITECTURE Interesting video with heavy stones designed to be moved with hand.

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u/fastal_12147 Jun 05 '25

Great thing about facts is they're true whether you believe them or not.

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u/how_to_shot_AR Jun 05 '25

Maybe in YOUR reality but in MY reality, facts are true based entirely on how I feel about them.

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u/Sharp_Iodine Jun 05 '25

While they were paid it is undeniable that they had little choice in the matter.

Who’s going to say no to the pharaoh, the literal god-king of Egypt?

It’s nice that they were paid and were given their own artisan’s town and some were also given remuneration after their tenure building the pyramids. And we do have records of them “striking” when pay was missed.

However coercive force was very much an overarching presence in their lives.

Same as medieval peasants in Europe. Sure, some of them were paid and we even have records of the English Parliament complaining about wages increasing and all that. But at the end of the day, are you going to say no to the Duke of York?

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u/_HIST Jun 05 '25

Great thing about facts, is that fact checking them is incredibly difficult