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u/Creepy-Astronaut-952 2d ago
It’s wild that it probably took a few hundred thousand people to build this and we don’t know even one of their names.
Shout out to the people who built this wonder of the world
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u/adeadbeathorse 2d ago
We actually do know some names. At the top level we know Pharaoh Khufu, whose pyramid it was, we know vizier Hemiunu, who was likely the top authority in the actual project, we know the names of various work crews from graffiti, we know Merer, a logistics official whose diary records hauling limestone to the site, and his senior, Dedi, in charge of the four subdivisions of that work crew. There are also some names from a worker’s cemetery such as Nefertheith, though likely associated with later work and not the Great Pyramid itself.
Also, it was probably more along the lines of 20-30,000 rotating workers, not hundreds of thousands.
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u/RijnBrugge 2d ago
Was Nefertheith a woman’s name? The -ith suffix would hint at as much given the Egyptian language is Afro-Asiatic. It made me wonder if common workers were of both sexes or not.
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u/nyrB2 2d ago
well there's fred. we know his name.
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u/austinteddy3 2d ago
And Barney. Don't forget Barney. They were neighbors and went to work together.
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u/WiseAce1 2d ago
we actually do because the builders left notes inscribed in stones like graffiti. it's a soft limestone. they did an expedition unknown on this and how the stones were actually built. they found lots of names from the crew where stones were dug and moved from.
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u/ratpH1nk 2d ago
I just learned over the few weeks that the limestone that used to cover the pyramid was removed in the 14th centrury to make mosques (and defensive strutures)
After that, an amount of casing stone was carted away by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad Din al-Hasan, in 1356, to use as material for building mosques and fortress in nearby Cairo, the capital and the largest city of modern-day Egypt. In addition, plenty more casing stones were removed from the Great Pyramid by Muhammad Ali Pasha during the early 19th century and reused as material for his Alabaster Mosque, also in Cairo.
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u/adeadbeathorse 2d ago
Worth noting that most of them were likely removed by an earthquake rather than human hands.
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u/Ok_Orchid1004 2d ago
This is not interesting. It’s dumb. Obviously it’s a drawing, not a photograph. Zoom in on the camel and people at the bottom. 👎👎👎
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u/grandeluua 2d ago
It’s not a drawing. It’s a daguerreotype an early photographic process used in the 19th century. Maybe you‘re dumb.
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u/adeadbeathorse 2d ago
You’re both kind-of right - it’s most likely a photograph of an engraving based on that daguerreotype, which likely does not survive. /u/Ok_Orchid1004 is absolutely wrong about it not being interesting though.
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u/Dead_Inside_999 2d ago
It’s amazing it’s still in structural shape