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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14869347/discovery-Egypts-Great-Pyramid-zahi-hawass.html
Archaeologists have uncovered ancient inscriptions inside
Egypt’s Great Pyramid that they say confirm who built the
monument 4,500 years ago.
Ancient Greeks shared stories that the stunning monument
was built by 100,000 slaves who worked in three-month shifts
over 20 years.
But new discoveries inside the Great Pyramid have changed
the narrative, showing it was constructed by paid, skilled
laborers who worked continuously, taking one day off every
10 days.
Egyptologist Dr Zahi Hawass and his team recently explored
a series of narrow chambers above the King’s Chamber using
imaging technology, finding never-before-seen markings left
by work gangs from the 13th-century BC.
They also unearthed tombs south of the pyramid, the eternal
resting places of skilled laborers, complete with statues
of workers muscling stones and 21 hieroglyphic titles like
'overseer of the side of the pyramid' and 'craftsman.'
'[The discoveries] confirm that the builders were not slaves.
If they had been, they would never have been buried in the
shadow of the pyramids,' Dr Hawass said during an episode
of the Matt Beall Limitless podcast.
. . .
There are some narrow spaces above the Kings Chamber
that humans can't get to now. So, they sent a snake
camera up into there and found writing done by the
construction crews. The stones there would only have
been accessible during the construction.
Image enhancement revealed writing in a system which
was commonly in use around when the pyramid was built.
It's likely that being safely tucked into those little
micro-chambers protected the writing from erosion.
Other info about the pyramid has recently been found,
including that a very long stone/mud ramp was built to
drag up the stones - nothing about aliens levitating
anything. Humans are smart and it's almost insulting
to presume our ancestors couldn't carve a toilet seat
without alien intervention.
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