Builders of the Pyramids

The tombs of the pyramid workmen reveal they were paid workers, not slaves.

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[psychodelicdragon]

thats pretty interesting that this was not just slave labor that built the pyramids. instead they wre well paid employees.

[Shadowflare00]

They didn't look like white people as the re-enactments suggest here, for certain. Egypt was more of a melting pot. Many would have looked like what we consider today to be 'black', though some were a little lighter than that with a simply dusky complexion.

[awakenme1]

But dont this just prove that the bible is a mixuture of true history and lies created by a fictious race called jews...they were never enslaved...nor were they around when the pyramids were built...not to mention europe..

[squelchdown]

If we built another pyramid that would solve the unemployment PROBLEM =).

[Japheth19]

@Japheth19 but to ensure that the israelites didnt rebel against him, he slaughtered all of their firstborn sons. through this act he unknowingly ensured the collapse the egypt he had built with his mark. if he hadnt enslaved the israelites, he wouldnt have had killed the firstborns, so that moses' mother would have to ship him off down river to protect him from egyptian soldiers, and egypt would have most definately remained one of themost powerful monarchies to this day but nope - epic fail

[Japheth19]

indeed they werent slaves. they were all family to the second most powerful man in all of egypt. they built the pyramids as tombs for the pharoahs who they saw as powerful, great, kind, and understanding leaders. once joseph died and Ramses the 1st took over with his greed and and lack of care for human life, saw the israelites as an opportunity to put his legacy in the top spot of history. he enslaved the people who had willingly served egypt so that he didnt have to worry about them leaving.

[CordDragonzord]

They had a designated job for beer making....THAT'S AWESOME!

[sngwidmepnoy]

amazing!

[kissmybuttdimple]

incredible show.. well done NAT-GEO channel.

[lytrigian]

So just like we can "wind back" modern Indo-European languages to discover what Proto-Indo-European must have been like (some of our English words are *very* old) we can take the different Coptic dialects and wind them back to see how they were pronounced in earlier millennia.

The Rosetta Stone already represents a very late stage of the language, and it alone cannot tell us how (for instance) Khufu talked. But we can get a lot of insight from these other linguistic techniques.

[lytrigian]

That's a big subject. To sum it up, there's *some* guesswork and reconstruction involved, yes. But languages change in regular ways that can be predictable when you know enough about them. Knowing how a language changes allows you to "wind back" to a previous era, especially when we have the writing. Lots of our funny English spellings reflect actual pronunciation of centuries ago, for instance.

[squirrelspown]

dont we know more about the writing system than the pronunchiation

and how do we even know that its the same pronunciation or even the same languadge

explane this to me

i want to know as a edgicating moment (this is not a pissed of tone btw)

ove what a cupple hundred years look at the drastic change between enland dialect and pronuciation and even spelling and our own (america) over a cupple thousand years that turns lattin into spanish

lattin into french

with the movement and people q^?^p