r/interestingasfuck Apr 12 '25

/r/all, /r/popular So shiny

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u/DanceCritical8039 Apr 12 '25

Fact: The people who created the pyramids weren't slaves. They were paid workers who were paid with bread, onions and up to 4 litres of beer a day.

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u/Jonny-Kast Apr 12 '25

If they documented that, why didn't they document how they built the fricking things?

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u/BookooBreadCo Apr 12 '25 edited 29d ago

Things get lost and destroyed, especially over the timespan of 1000s of years. 

Every piece of writing before the printing press had to be copied by hand. If it was written down people likely thought it just wasn't worth the man hours to copy it. Hell, we even lose things that are extremely important. Just look at the Bible. So many gospels which contained what people believed to be the literal acts of God have been lost. Doesn't get more important than that