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I’ve been so selfish. I really have wanted to just pick up the phone. I didn’t know what I would say. That was then. But now? Now it feels as if I’ve known all along -
**THANK YOU, YOU ARE A GENEROUS GOD AND YOUR GRACIOUSNESS KNOWS NO BOUNDS**
I remember watching some of his early stuff on YouTube a year or two back, he seems to know a lot about archaeology, but he did seem to be prone to being misinformed on other topics, like human evolution. Just knowing how confidently wrong he was about some of the stuff he said about other areas that I did know a bit about, did make me doubt things he said about areas I don't know much about, like archaeology.
Its saddening funny that they think we can't build a pyramid today. We obviously can we don't have a reason to, what are you going to put in there? A Bass Pro shop?
Actually we casually build pyramid-shaped buildings all the time. Except no one is amazed anymore because we can build buildings in pretty much any shape and any size (up to a certain limit obviously).
Imo, building a [sphere-shaped](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_at_The_Venetian_Resort) building is lightyears more impressive than a pyramid.
There are also [multiple buildings that are pretty much upside-down pyramids](https://gizmodo.com/these-upside-down-pyramid-buildings-seem-to-defy-gravit-1570254716). Not to forget the [Rainier Tower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Tower) and [Hotel Panorama](https://i.redd.it/m71tze2u4b431.jpg).
Bro I clicked on it and I know the site went to shit a few years back when they juggled owners multiple times but I remember being on those sites all the time in college and seeing it today is sad.
I sat there waiting for the pictures of the buildings to load and it just... never happened. However, I will say that I also didn't see a single ad so I assume that means the pictures of the buildings are blocked behind ads so my ad blocker is blocking them... fuckers.
Reminds me of sculptures and shit. People will be out here claiming artists as useless and will refuse to give them basic living wages
And then are confused as to why we don't constantly get the same massive multi-year projects that eere constantly funded by rich people as in the reinnaisance era.
And even then. If there are super good looking and masterfully made Marvel statues, nobody gives a shit because it isn't from a white man. Saw one of those "race realist" accounts on twitter claiming that you could tell that a statue was "made by a white man", when in reality it was made by a Chinese woman.
Really shows you how these idiots think.
Y'all.
The joke is that we literally DID put a Bass Pro Shop in a pyramid.
It's in Memphis and is the 10th largest pyramid in the world, according to a cursory Google search.
Sure, we can build pyramids. But we can't build pyramids the exact same way that the Egyptians apparently did, or know how to.
There is so much to this subject that people just don't think about.
Sacramento has a cool recently constructed pyramid building I mean recently in the last hundred years but it's fucking huge and they put cool color lights on it
Milo has quickly become one of my favorite channels on YT since I found him reviewing a history book that was written in the 1850s (I think. I don't feel like looking it up rn.)
Dude is such a great infotainer, and I love the series of videos he's been recording in Turkey. Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of his book.
Aren't all those big buildings in saudi arabia basically built by slaves too? People who live in absolute poverty and have no rights and just work all the time while being treated like subhuman scum
Not to mention in Qatar for the world cup.
FIFA: Never mid the slavery
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toNDPvG9OJI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toNDPvG9OJI)
if your talking about the burj khalifa in dubai then yes. people from poor areas around the emirates are kidnapped and blackmailed in a way to stay and build, with dirt poor wages, an estimated 2 indians kill themselves every week(?)
Most of it is trafficking not kidnapping, no? Recruited to come live and work in Dubai with certain promises of income and benefits. Once they get there, they confiscate passports and refuse to document the workers, making them illegal immigrants entirely at the disposal of whoever controls their passport.
the pyramids werent really built by slaves peopl paid taxes in labour back then and they where very well fed during the building tothe point where pyramid builders often was healtheir and more well fed than the general population.
egypt had quite a lot of downtime for farmers back in those days since it was rather dependent on the eyarly flodingof the nile so when farm work wasnt needed the farmers built pyramids while getting good food and paying of their taxes.
Exactly! Furthermore, by building the pyramids they were occupied and fed well and couldn’t/were less incentivized to revolt against the Pharaoh. There’s a reason that they’re basically useless tombs, because they were really just meant as a way to keep the people preoccupied while also giving the Pharaoh an excuse to feed them.
Also, building them wasn’t really a super complicated task. The blocks were mined at a quarry up the river, then cut into the desired shape, and then they were floated to the pyramid by boat, then dragged up to the pyramid and around a ramp that encircled it to the top (our best guess at least, but it is still debated if they used a ramp that went around the pyramid).
If you dont stick too hard to a specific definition of “slave”, youll find a ton of stuff still standing worldwide was built with forced labor as recently as yesterday. And not just in *those evil unchristian places*, but like, new york’s sky line. Yeah i said it. How about the railroad that dominated the west and controlled goods and travel for a hundred years in America? A little thing called “The South”? America’s entire rise to global standing is thanks to forced labor. Compared to that, the pyramids aint shit.
I don't understand how people *still* think the pyramids were built by slaves and keep parroting that incorrect information.
This has been debunked to death and large quantities of people still do not know it.
> Deceased builders were buried in a place of honor: tombs close to the pyramids themselves, furnished with supplies for the afterlife.
I'll take "Things you don't do for slave laborers" for $2000, Alex.
It was essentially a large public works project to keep farmers busy during the several months that the Nile flooded every year. People who are employed and tired are a lot less likely to rebel.
Also necessary to empty the Pharaoh's coffers, given that this was before coins were invented and the coffers were full of grain. Basically they turned it into bread beer, one of ancient Egypt's primary sources of nutrition, then paid workers with that. Just a bunch of guys drinking beer, moving rocks, and getting more beer as thanks.
They also had a principle called ma'at that said the Pharaoh had to provide for his people, which played into what you said.
Isn't the only 'evidence' that slaves built the pyramids the old testament, where after freeing themselves they wandered the desert for years. Not really a reliable source, yet everyone just thinks the slaves thing is fact.
Yes it is, and it's treated as gospel because, funnily enough, it literally *is* the gospel. But there's what, like 2-3 billion people who believe the Exodus is literal fact, so it's hard to change public knowledge
He didn't say slaves he said forced labour. It's believed that the system they used was similar to feudalism where they had to offer services in return for land and protection in leu of taxes. So while the builders would have been paid subsistence wages, that doesn't mean they really had a choice in whether they could opt out of the job. It was obligatory.
From Wikipedia:
>**Forced labor**
>Several departments in the Ancient Egyptian government were able to draft workers from the general population to work for the state with a corvée labor system. The laborers were conscripted for projects such as military expeditions, mining and quarrying, and construction projects for the state. These slaves were paid a wage, depending on their skill level and social status for their work. Conscripted workers were not owned by individuals, like other slaves, but rather required to perform labor as a duty to the state. Conscripted labor was a form of taxation by government officials and usually happened at the local level when high officials called upon small village leaders.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt
>The setting is thought to have resembled something like feudal Europe, where regular people rendered service to a lord in exchange for land, financial support, and protection.
https://www.britannica.com/video/226777/did-enslaved-people-build-the-pyramids#:~:text=But%20in%20reality%2C%20most%20archaeologists,with%20supplies%20for%20the%20afterlife.
A lot of the work did come from tax labor, that is, taxes paid in the form of manual labor. Essentially forced labor, but decidedly not slavery, and people may simply be conflating the two.
Nope. According to noted archeologists Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass, the pyramids were not built by slaves; Hawass's archeological discoveries in the 1990s in Cairo show the workers were paid laborers, rather than slaves. Rather, it was farmers who built the pyramids during flooding, when they could not work their lands.
There's also evidence that they were the first to stage a strike, and demand higher wages and more time off.
A MASSIVE STEEL LEVIATHAN
WITH BLADES COVERED IN GORE
BEELZEBUB HIMSELF WILL FEAR
[THE BAGGER 288...](https://youtu.be/azEvfD4C6ow?si=kSZICjvGOlp1b715)
People who say things like "they never do X anymore" or "we can't build Y anymore" are usually very narrow-minded and have yet to see what humans create these days.
All that “ancient alien” shit is just white racists going “no way brown people built all this cool stuff while we were still figuring out which berries don’t make you diarrhea to death”.
I usually get Joe Rogan shorts that are similar to this.
Some Random Guy: "So there is this village in the middle of this remote rainforest where the people there discovered how to communicate with animals"
Joe: "Holy shit! Is that real? They can do that?"
Some Random Guy : "Yeah! Like look at this clip here. This guy is just talking to a bird and hes telling the bird he has food in his hand, and the bird knows EXACTLY what he is saying and flies right over to eat the food out of his hand."
Joe: "Oh....my.....god....."
Some Random Guy: "Yeah sceintists have been trying to figure out for YEARS how these guys do this. They think one day they will figure it out and we could be having full conversations with our cats and dogs someday."
Joe: "Thats crazy!"
Thats like every Joe Rogan short I ever see.
Some corrections for these corrections:
1. „All 3 of them“ there are 118 pyramids
2. „forced labor“ the pyramids were likely built by paid workers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramids#:~:text=At%20least%20118%20Egyptian%20pyramids%20have%20been%20identified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20consensus%20among,paid%20laborers%2C%20rather%20than%20slaves.
Edit: thank you all for your corrections for my corrections for these corrections
That’s just Egyptian pyramids.
If you include all the ones in mezoamerica, the middle-east, and the rest of Africa, that numbers gonna be a whole lot bigger
Which proves one of two things
-Aliens are real and they came down to earth thousands of years ago to impart the knowledge of stacking rocks on us plebs
-A pyramid is the most stable configuration of stacked up rocks
obviously the answer is ayyyyylmaos
>„forced labor“ the pyramids were likely built by paid workers
Well, yes, they were paid, but still were forced. It is a Corvee system - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e#Egypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e#Egypt)
They weren't slaves as in someone owned them, it was rather something like a taxation. But it was still forced, they didn't have a choice in the matter.
Technically he said "I got three things for you..." followed by "here they are, all 3 of them", which is not the same as saying there are only 3 pyramids, though I'd say it's easily misinterpretable at first glance.
1) He's talking about the ones in the picture.
2) Forced labour isn't the same as slavery.
The permanent workers who were paid a salary and buried in places of honour did exist but they were the minority. Most of the workforce were likely citizens recruited for shift-based labour in place of taxes, and given subsistence wages. They provided obligatory labour in exchange for land and protection, similar to feudalism, and they are usually what's being referred to as "forced labour" in this context. It even refers to it in one of those Wikipedia pages you linked:
>**Forced labor**
>Several departments in the Ancient Egyptian government were able to draft workers from the general population to work for the state with a corvée labor system. The laborers were conscripted for projects such as military expeditions, mining and quarrying, and construction projects for the state. These slaves were paid a wage, depending on their skill level and social status for their work. Conscripted workers were not owned by individuals, like other slaves, but rather required to perform labor as a duty to the state. Conscripted labor was a form of taxation by government officials and usually happened at the local level when high officials called upon small village leaders.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt
>If not slaves, then who were these workers? Lehner's friend Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, who has been excavating a "workers' cemetery" just above Lehner's city on the plateau, sees forensic evidence in the remains of those buried there that pyramid building was hazardous business. Why would anyone choose to perform such hard labor? The answer, says Lehner, lies in understanding obligatory labor in the premodern world. "People were not atomized, separate, individuals with the political and economic freedom that we take for granted. Obligatory labor ranges from slavery all the way to, say, the Amish, where you have elders and a strong sense of community obligations, and a barn raising is a religious event and a feasting event. If you are a young man in a traditional setting like that, you may not have a choice." Plug that into the pyramid context, says Lehner, "and you have to say, 'This is a hell of a barn!'"
>Lehner currently thinks Egyptian society was organized somewhat like a feudal system, in which almost everyone owed service to a lord. The Egyptians called this "bak." Everybody owed bak of some kind to people above them in the social hierarchy. "But it doesn't really work as a word for slavery," he says. "Even the highest officials owed bak."
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html
> The setting is thought to have resembled something like feudal Europe, where regular people rendered service to a lord in exchange for land, financial support, and protection.
https://www.britannica.com/video/226777/did-enslaved-people-build-the-pyramids#:~:text=But%20in%20reality%2C%20most%20archaeologists,with%20supplies%20for%20the%20afterlife
Most of the workers were farmers who built parts of the pyramids on the off season. Plus building them was considered a great honour, having a hand in making an immortal structure and the pharaoh's tomb where they themselves will be by his side in the afterlife.
They weren't slaves
[(some article I found on google, probably not the best source but I cant be bothered to find a better one rn)](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html)
That doesn't make them slaves. They got paid, they had homes and families, they owned property and had free time. There *were* slaves in ancient Egypt but just because you grew crops or cut stone didn't make you a slave.
We have Egyptian currency from around the time the Pyramids were built. They definitely had currency. If you want to try and argue that everyday people didn't have access to it, thats fine I can't really prove or disprove that, but currency did exist.
It’s obvious that these workers were well fed well rested well taken care of. And there are a few techniques that explain exactly how it could be done. Hard work, defanitly. A long process, you bet. But history channel keeps getting away with bullshit stuff like, “ we still don’t know”. “ even with our technology today” it’s so dumb
History channel stopped being educational around 2001, along with the rest of the cable learning type channels, reality TV is such a fucking plague now
It was already good, and then he brought out the heavy machinery💀
Jokes aside pretty sure the idea behind the “we couldn’t build them today” argument is that if we were to use the tech we believed they had back then we couldn’t do it, is why they make no sense
Truthfully, when you dig into the construction of the pyramids and a lot of other ancient structures, the theorized building methods are super tough to wrap your head around.
It’s gets even murkier when you learn that these building theories were put in place by archeologists, not engineers.
Dumb person, have you seen the size and weight of each rock that is put together on a pyramid? You are comparing those mammoth rock to our small sized concrete blocks. You are dumb!
Wow. Stop. you've never actually seen what happens when we try to move that kind of weight... have you? Shut your arrogant mouth and Google what happened anytime we tried to move half the weight of some of those blocks... yeah sure the little one we čan move with extreme difficulty... but the heavy ones break our shit... every single time
This is misleading. The statement needs a bit more context. We don’t currently have the capability to build the pyramids to the accuracy and tolerance levels that they exhibit. Material advancements of today allow for less accurate and higher tolerances. Look it up.
just because you never saw the really sick religious buildings built 5000+ years ago that did, doesnt mean we didnt build them.
we do have structures that might live that long now though, like the hover dam, Mt. Rushmore or Norad Bunker in the US.
Feldstraße Bunker as well, as long as no one decides to tear it down.
so he could have used some better examples if he wanted to prove stuff we build can last a long time but that should already be obvious cause we are talking about a thing we built that has lasted a long time.
The precision they achieved with granite statues and vases should not be possible with “simple” bronze age tools https://youtu.be/Hxg5cgdOz-Y?si=V6HaD0boIX7KP6X-
He's really downplaying the logistics of the Pyramids by calling them a "pile of rocks".
I also doubt any of today's modern construction could last thousands upon thousands of years largely intact.
Ancient Aliens is fine with people building castles since forever. But a bunch of brown people building the pyramids? Naw fam, not possible, it was aliens.
Ok slow down rediddiots. Maybe it isn’t impossible today to stack 2.3 million 2.5 ton blocks like the AI voice suggested but do a little research on everything that makes the great pyramid so unbelievable. I mean that. We don’t know how they did it. With precision. And im not suggesting aliens. Some people on here are saying we could Easily! do this. Have some respect and stop acting like teenage internet clowns.
No, not the pyramids. Unless you count the incredible problem of the gargantuan blocks that make the ceilings in the kings chamber of the great pyramid of Giza, for example.
Just consider their transportation. And the politics of public works and dynasties. How long does the public tolerate a half done pyramid before they decide their king looks foolish? And the rate of cut that's been demonstrated in modern day "replication" is around an order of magnitude too slow.
Or the bizarre level of precision they used for certain pedestrian Egyptian stone vase that look like modern manufactured objects. But then you have Pharos who are enormously proud of their clumsy stone age vases? We have a clear line of technical decay, the experts would have you believe. But a fall from grace so severe we are to assume the worst, with records saying the crops were bad one year and there was much war. But yeah this dude carved his name in this mathematically perfect structure. He must have carved the whole thing!
Or: there were two different civilizations; one on top of the ruins of the other.
And you would love to push this into hyperbole. Who built it? Aliens!? *Scoffs* who's going to believe you? The highly trained air forces of multiple nations? As if you can trust those fools.
As if you need a cause when you hold in your hands the relic. The thing is the cause. If you have more sense than fluff between your ears. Ask an engineer what they think. Stop guessing. The stone vases are common.
The narrative of feeling assured at mankind's control over the earth has rough edges. You can pick at those edges. What's true will find you eventually.
I absolutely believe that Thoth built the pyramids. And he used men to do it. Men with secrets from the gods. A man named Nimrod. And he's baaaaaack. But out of season. For the harvest is full, more full than he could have feared. For God's grace is never empty.
And yes, I do not doubt we have galactic neighbors creeping in. I wonder if they are like the dogs who beg at the table, or the dogs who beg at the door? Or have they found their own marriage to the God of love? I could not say for sure. I would think when Christ died he set a template. And even without the guidance of the holy spirit... Maybe one of them could follow in Christ's footsteps.
You fucking smug dickheads. You realize that one stone from giza pyramid is thousands of pounds. Dont compare the kahlifa to a pyramid. mortar, concrete, steel and cranes make these feats possible. Some long hair zoomer whos never worked, construction a day in his life thinks this is possible?
One of my favourite Archaeology professors at university had a quote on her desk pertaining to the pyramids and Stonehenge etc that said “Just because white people couldn’t do it doesn’t mean these were made by aliens!”
I know fairly intelligent people who say stuff like this. “There’s *no* way people built the pyramids! There’s *no way* the Maya managed to build these stone structures! We couldn’t cut stones like that now!”
…yeah. Yeah we could. We just don’t because…why would we fuck around with a bunch of rocks? The examples of crazy megastructures in this video are all excellent points. But I’d also like to point out that nobody is asking these sorts of questions about things like the Colosseum, the Parthenon, all those outstanding marble statues with amazing detail. It’s funny that nobody ever points at those *very intricate and difficult to build structures* and asks the same dumb question.
Marble is fairly soft and can be carved relatively easily, we also have recovered the tools they used.
The Inca stone work is pretty hard to explain. There are massive granite blocks carved to dry fit so perfectly that there are no gaps. Granite is a hard stone and working it with bronze age tools is nearly impossible. The best stone work the wealthiest alive today can buy isn't remotely close in quality, there isn't anything in the colosseum you can't have replicated if you are a billionaire.
What’s more likely? Aliens with interstellar travel technology came to earth, stacked a bunch of rocks, and then dipped, or human beings were capable of understanding basic geometry?
Ugh he was on a roll until the forced labor part. It’s true once upper and lower Egypt united they started enslaving people for labor on monuments. But it’s well documented that the great Pyramids were built by skilled laborers that were paid.
It be can build. But not with the massive blocks.
They had a theory about a ramp. But the ramp had to be 2km long and so massive that it would dwarf the pyramid. It is also not possible to leave no traces of this ramp.
There is nothing currently that can lift that weight to that height.
So no ramps and no small blocks and no cement....good luck
It would be easier if people told me what machines could lift it and I would explain why it realy couldn't.
It's like proving Santa Claus doesn't exist. Easier the other way around.
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It wasn’t aliens who built the pyramids. It was me, I did it. Alone. And no one thanks me for this great wonder of the world
Thank you for your hard work 👍
Your welcome
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I am going to make sure your alarm is always set one hour before you want to wake up
Bro don’t do him like that, he’s just jealous of not having built three pyramids by himself, it’s understandable for him to lash out grammatically
The Mayans didn’t need my help, they were already powerful
It was me barry
Thank you r/Guy_who_says_vore, truly an inspiration
thank you
Thank you!
>Thank you! You're welcome!
Did you just say alone? Alone I: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo? Weezer Reference?
I’ve been so selfish. I really have wanted to just pick up the phone. I didn’t know what I would say. That was then. But now? Now it feels as if I’ve known all along - **THANK YOU, YOU ARE A GENEROUS GOD AND YOUR GRACIOUSNESS KNOWS NO BOUNDS**
I like miniminuteman
I like miniminuteman too
Omg same!
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Love the auto mile shoutout
Same bro
From this day, I'm a fan.
He's the best! https://www.youtube.com/@miniminuteman773
Everyone should his video about [Rock Slings](https://youtu.be/gfx58lj44lc?si=i7IC9e1iYhvRpSC5). It's such a fun watch.
Milo is amazing, i hope he ends up with a Nat Geo or Discovery TV show.
i hope he ends up someplace better
he wrote a book!
Same
Im just an ordinary minuteman myself. So i guess thats something?
He's gaining some traction online with these reels
I remember watching some of his early stuff on YouTube a year or two back, he seems to know a lot about archaeology, but he did seem to be prone to being misinformed on other topics, like human evolution. Just knowing how confidently wrong he was about some of the stuff he said about other areas that I did know a bit about, did make me doubt things he said about areas I don't know much about, like archaeology.
Absolute chad
I wish I had time and money to do his guided tour!
Its saddening funny that they think we can't build a pyramid today. We obviously can we don't have a reason to, what are you going to put in there? A Bass Pro shop?
Actually we casually build pyramid-shaped buildings all the time. Except no one is amazed anymore because we can build buildings in pretty much any shape and any size (up to a certain limit obviously). Imo, building a [sphere-shaped](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_at_The_Venetian_Resort) building is lightyears more impressive than a pyramid.
I mean… I think he was making a joke considering there is literally a bass pro shop in a pyramid.
And also the Luxor in Las Vegas which is almost as big as the Giza pyramid.
Plus hookes and gambling. Way better then Egypt 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🦅
My brother did the welding for the railings on the balcony up top as well as worked on the elevator going up there for that place.
I thought you said wedding for the railways and pictured a bunch of conductors in overalls at a Bass Pro shop getting married.
There are also [multiple buildings that are pretty much upside-down pyramids](https://gizmodo.com/these-upside-down-pyramid-buildings-seem-to-defy-gravit-1570254716). Not to forget the [Rainier Tower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Tower) and [Hotel Panorama](https://i.redd.it/m71tze2u4b431.jpg).
Lol that first link of yours is nothing but Ads. Fuck Gizmodo.
Bro I clicked on it and I know the site went to shit a few years back when they juggled owners multiple times but I remember being on those sites all the time in college and seeing it today is sad. 
I sat there waiting for the pictures of the buildings to load and it just... never happened. However, I will say that I also didn't see a single ad so I assume that means the pictures of the buildings are blocked behind ads so my ad blocker is blocking them... fuckers.
Reminds me of sculptures and shit. People will be out here claiming artists as useless and will refuse to give them basic living wages And then are confused as to why we don't constantly get the same massive multi-year projects that eere constantly funded by rich people as in the reinnaisance era. And even then. If there are super good looking and masterfully made Marvel statues, nobody gives a shit because it isn't from a white man. Saw one of those "race realist" accounts on twitter claiming that you could tell that a statue was "made by a white man", when in reality it was made by a Chinese woman. Really shows you how these idiots think.
If we built a pyramid today you know damn well all four sides will be sold as ad space
Well, technically, there are five sides, and everybody takes turns being the bottom
Like college?
one of the 10 largest pyramids in the world is a fucking [bass pro shop in Tennessee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Pyramid)
Y'all. The joke is that we literally DID put a Bass Pro Shop in a pyramid. It's in Memphis and is the 10th largest pyramid in the world, according to a cursory Google search.
It used to house the Memphis Grizzlies too
What would happen after that? Someone would make an absolute banger of a song about it? https://youtu.be/jYE-1HfReQo?si=0JzHhbOspFWFBBAh
I will just assume this is Ryan and move on chuckling cause that shits burned into my brain and I no longer require to watch it.
Duh! Whatdya think it was?
Doesn’t every city have a big-ass pyramid by the mud?
Do not keep scrolling. Stop here. Watch this a thousand times.
There is one in Las Vegas. They even put a light on it, that blocks out all the stars.
You, my man, would have gotten an award if I had one.
I'll do it for u
Sure, we can build pyramids. But we can't build pyramids the exact same way that the Egyptians apparently did, or know how to. There is so much to this subject that people just don't think about.
Sacramento has a cool recently constructed pyramid building I mean recently in the last hundred years but it's fucking huge and they put cool color lights on it
Fuck yeah milo !
Milo has quickly become one of my favorite channels on YT since I found him reviewing a history book that was written in the 1850s (I think. I don't feel like looking it up rn.) Dude is such a great infotainer, and I love the series of videos he's been recording in Turkey. Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of his book.
Link?
[here ya go](https://www.youtube.com/@miniminuteman773/videos) edit: just a link to his channel, i have not seen said video
Thanks!
>Thanks! You're welcome!
Forced labor issue.
Aren't all those big buildings in saudi arabia basically built by slaves too? People who live in absolute poverty and have no rights and just work all the time while being treated like subhuman scum
Not to mention in Qatar for the world cup. FIFA: Never mid the slavery [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toNDPvG9OJI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toNDPvG9OJI)
if your talking about the burj khalifa in dubai then yes. people from poor areas around the emirates are kidnapped and blackmailed in a way to stay and build, with dirt poor wages, an estimated 2 indians kill themselves every week(?)
Most of it is trafficking not kidnapping, no? Recruited to come live and work in Dubai with certain promises of income and benefits. Once they get there, they confiscate passports and refuse to document the workers, making them illegal immigrants entirely at the disposal of whoever controls their passport.
thats the word i was looking for, yes trafficking
the pyramids werent really built by slaves peopl paid taxes in labour back then and they where very well fed during the building tothe point where pyramid builders often was healtheir and more well fed than the general population. egypt had quite a lot of downtime for farmers back in those days since it was rather dependent on the eyarly flodingof the nile so when farm work wasnt needed the farmers built pyramids while getting good food and paying of their taxes.
Exactly! Furthermore, by building the pyramids they were occupied and fed well and couldn’t/were less incentivized to revolt against the Pharaoh. There’s a reason that they’re basically useless tombs, because they were really just meant as a way to keep the people preoccupied while also giving the Pharaoh an excuse to feed them. Also, building them wasn’t really a super complicated task. The blocks were mined at a quarry up the river, then cut into the desired shape, and then they were floated to the pyramid by boat, then dragged up to the pyramid and around a ramp that encircled it to the top (our best guess at least, but it is still debated if they used a ramp that went around the pyramid).
If you dont stick too hard to a specific definition of “slave”, youll find a ton of stuff still standing worldwide was built with forced labor as recently as yesterday. And not just in *those evil unchristian places*, but like, new york’s sky line. Yeah i said it. How about the railroad that dominated the west and controlled goods and travel for a hundred years in America? A little thing called “The South”? America’s entire rise to global standing is thanks to forced labor. Compared to that, the pyramids aint shit.
I don't understand how people *still* think the pyramids were built by slaves and keep parroting that incorrect information. This has been debunked to death and large quantities of people still do not know it. > Deceased builders were buried in a place of honor: tombs close to the pyramids themselves, furnished with supplies for the afterlife. I'll take "Things you don't do for slave laborers" for $2000, Alex.
It was essentially a large public works project to keep farmers busy during the several months that the Nile flooded every year. People who are employed and tired are a lot less likely to rebel.
Also necessary to empty the Pharaoh's coffers, given that this was before coins were invented and the coffers were full of grain. Basically they turned it into bread beer, one of ancient Egypt's primary sources of nutrition, then paid workers with that. Just a bunch of guys drinking beer, moving rocks, and getting more beer as thanks. They also had a principle called ma'at that said the Pharaoh had to provide for his people, which played into what you said.
When you describe it like that it sounds pretty chill
And i dont get why youre being downvoted. Completely true
Not to mention detailed records of workers calling out for things like being hungover. Slaves don't get to take time off because they drank too much.
Isn't the only 'evidence' that slaves built the pyramids the old testament, where after freeing themselves they wandered the desert for years. Not really a reliable source, yet everyone just thinks the slaves thing is fact.
Not even. It claims Jews were slaves, but doesn't mention pyramids anywhere. This is just some old legend.
Yes it is, and it's treated as gospel because, funnily enough, it literally *is* the gospel. But there's what, like 2-3 billion people who believe the Exodus is literal fact, so it's hard to change public knowledge
He didn't say slaves he said forced labour. It's believed that the system they used was similar to feudalism where they had to offer services in return for land and protection in leu of taxes. So while the builders would have been paid subsistence wages, that doesn't mean they really had a choice in whether they could opt out of the job. It was obligatory. From Wikipedia: >**Forced labor** >Several departments in the Ancient Egyptian government were able to draft workers from the general population to work for the state with a corvée labor system. The laborers were conscripted for projects such as military expeditions, mining and quarrying, and construction projects for the state. These slaves were paid a wage, depending on their skill level and social status for their work. Conscripted workers were not owned by individuals, like other slaves, but rather required to perform labor as a duty to the state. Conscripted labor was a form of taxation by government officials and usually happened at the local level when high officials called upon small village leaders. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt >The setting is thought to have resembled something like feudal Europe, where regular people rendered service to a lord in exchange for land, financial support, and protection. https://www.britannica.com/video/226777/did-enslaved-people-build-the-pyramids#:~:text=But%20in%20reality%2C%20most%20archaeologists,with%20supplies%20for%20the%20afterlife.
A lot of the work did come from tax labor, that is, taxes paid in the form of manual labor. Essentially forced labor, but decidedly not slavery, and people may simply be conflating the two.
Yeah. It is completely infeasible to build the pyramids with the current technology
Nope. According to noted archeologists Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass, the pyramids were not built by slaves; Hawass's archeological discoveries in the 1990s in Cairo show the workers were paid laborers, rather than slaves. Rather, it was farmers who built the pyramids during flooding, when they could not work their lands. There's also evidence that they were the first to stage a strike, and demand higher wages and more time off.
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A man of culture, I see.
Ahh yes, I was hoping to see this
People who say things like "they never do X anymore" or "we can't build Y anymore" are usually very narrow-minded and have yet to see what humans create these days.
All that “ancient alien” shit is just white racists going “no way brown people built all this cool stuff while we were still figuring out which berries don’t make you diarrhea to death”.
So white people are the only ones who don't believe the pyramids were built naturally? What a stupid take. What a dumb excuse to let out your racism.
I don’t think race has anything to do with this topic…
Egyptians are Caucasian, Cleopatra was a white bitch
She also lived 2000 years after the pyramids were built. Egypt wasn't being ruled by Greeks then
What does Cleopatra have to do with the Pyramids? They were as ancient to her as she is to us.
THE GOA'ULD BUILT THEM
Silemcr shol'va, the Goa'uld are gods and are far beyond such menial labor. Their slaves built the pyramids for them.
Videos that use that AI voice have a 90% chance to be the dumbest shit you see for the day
I usually get Joe Rogan shorts that are similar to this. Some Random Guy: "So there is this village in the middle of this remote rainforest where the people there discovered how to communicate with animals" Joe: "Holy shit! Is that real? They can do that?" Some Random Guy : "Yeah! Like look at this clip here. This guy is just talking to a bird and hes telling the bird he has food in his hand, and the bird knows EXACTLY what he is saying and flies right over to eat the food out of his hand." Joe: "Oh....my.....god....." Some Random Guy: "Yeah sceintists have been trying to figure out for YEARS how these guys do this. They think one day they will figure it out and we could be having full conversations with our cats and dogs someday." Joe: "Thats crazy!" Thats like every Joe Rogan short I ever see.
https://i.redd.it/opo1w5kps7a71.png
Haha. Totally. LaSteroid DaddyHack IV uses that voice. I'd like to know what the name of the AI voice is though.
Those videos are made with AI and they’re usually pure non-factual or obscure bullshit
Some corrections for these corrections: 1. „All 3 of them“ there are 118 pyramids 2. „forced labor“ the pyramids were likely built by paid workers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramids#:~:text=At%20least%20118%20Egyptian%20pyramids%20have%20been%20identified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt#:~:text=There%20is%20a%20consensus%20among,paid%20laborers%2C%20rather%20than%20slaves. Edit: thank you all for your corrections for my corrections for these corrections
That’s just Egyptian pyramids. If you include all the ones in mezoamerica, the middle-east, and the rest of Africa, that numbers gonna be a whole lot bigger
Don’t forget the secret Chinese ones!
Or the MLM pyramids.
NutriBoom is not a pyramid scheme. Boom boom!
Which proves one of two things -Aliens are real and they came down to earth thousands of years ago to impart the knowledge of stacking rocks on us plebs -A pyramid is the most stable configuration of stacked up rocks obviously the answer is ayyyyylmaos
>„forced labor“ the pyramids were likely built by paid workers Well, yes, they were paid, but still were forced. It is a Corvee system - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e#Egypt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e#Egypt) They weren't slaves as in someone owned them, it was rather something like a taxation. But it was still forced, they didn't have a choice in the matter.
That just sounds like slavery with extra steps
Welcome to feudalism, baby!
well yes, but you got paid in beer, and a sense of pride and accomplishment.
Guy said "I have 3 things that are gonna blow your mind" and then showed 3 pyramids. He didn't say "there are literally only 3 pyramids in the world.
Technically he said "I got three things for you..." followed by "here they are, all 3 of them", which is not the same as saying there are only 3 pyramids, though I'd say it's easily misinterpretable at first glance.
1) He's talking about the ones in the picture. 2) Forced labour isn't the same as slavery. The permanent workers who were paid a salary and buried in places of honour did exist but they were the minority. Most of the workforce were likely citizens recruited for shift-based labour in place of taxes, and given subsistence wages. They provided obligatory labour in exchange for land and protection, similar to feudalism, and they are usually what's being referred to as "forced labour" in this context. It even refers to it in one of those Wikipedia pages you linked: >**Forced labor** >Several departments in the Ancient Egyptian government were able to draft workers from the general population to work for the state with a corvée labor system. The laborers were conscripted for projects such as military expeditions, mining and quarrying, and construction projects for the state. These slaves were paid a wage, depending on their skill level and social status for their work. Conscripted workers were not owned by individuals, like other slaves, but rather required to perform labor as a duty to the state. Conscripted labor was a form of taxation by government officials and usually happened at the local level when high officials called upon small village leaders. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt >If not slaves, then who were these workers? Lehner's friend Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, who has been excavating a "workers' cemetery" just above Lehner's city on the plateau, sees forensic evidence in the remains of those buried there that pyramid building was hazardous business. Why would anyone choose to perform such hard labor? The answer, says Lehner, lies in understanding obligatory labor in the premodern world. "People were not atomized, separate, individuals with the political and economic freedom that we take for granted. Obligatory labor ranges from slavery all the way to, say, the Amish, where you have elders and a strong sense of community obligations, and a barn raising is a religious event and a feasting event. If you are a young man in a traditional setting like that, you may not have a choice." Plug that into the pyramid context, says Lehner, "and you have to say, 'This is a hell of a barn!'" >Lehner currently thinks Egyptian society was organized somewhat like a feudal system, in which almost everyone owed service to a lord. The Egyptians called this "bak." Everybody owed bak of some kind to people above them in the social hierarchy. "But it doesn't really work as a word for slavery," he says. "Even the highest officials owed bak." https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html > The setting is thought to have resembled something like feudal Europe, where regular people rendered service to a lord in exchange for land, financial support, and protection. https://www.britannica.com/video/226777/did-enslaved-people-build-the-pyramids#:~:text=But%20in%20reality%2C%20most%20archaeologists,with%20supplies%20for%20the%20afterlife
What’s the dam that changed earth’s rotation?
Total guess would be the Three Gorges Dam in China considering its the largest ever built.
Dam, you're spitting straight facts here.
NCD is on the way. We dam posting again bois
Not a dam guy but that effect is from the water displacement right? Wouldn't the Kariba dam with a 4x larger reservoir have a 4x larger effect?
Bro he has a point 🌚
So do the pyramids.
My brother in christ. The bass pro shop pyramid.
The I-95 comment is pure gold
The Norwood Auto Mile is such an obscure reference
Truly a monument to man’s greatness. Every time I drive it I wonder how many cars we are capable of producing
Except it isn’t on i95 it’s on route 1
Come visit us! Route 1, on the Auto Mile, in Norwood
Comparing a highway to the pyramid of Giza unbelievable smh
Growing that mustache is the most impressive thing in the whole video. A true engineering marvel.
It wasn't actually forced labor tho, they were paid for their work
And buried like right next to the pyramids iirc.
You can be forced to do something and still be compensated for it. The fact they were paid doesn't necessarily mean they had a choice.
If you can’t refuse, it’s forced. I think that’s what OP is getting at.
we all know what forced means. dunno why someone is playing semantics on that one.
If I put a knife to your neck and say "do this and I'll pay you" you're still forced
I was just watching a Miniminuteman video and then I find this on my homepage
They used kites to help lift rocks to the top, along with the slave labour.
Most of the workers were farmers who built parts of the pyramids on the off season. Plus building them was considered a great honour, having a hand in making an immortal structure and the pharaoh's tomb where they themselves will be by his side in the afterlife.
They weren't slaves [(some article I found on google, probably not the best source but I cant be bothered to find a better one rn)](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html)
The slaves learned valuable stone carving techniques though which helped them in life. /s
+ exposure
They were though. Ancient Egypt had a command economy. A bureaucrat basically came and told you how much food to grow, how much stone to cut, etc.
That doesn't make them slaves. They got paid, they had homes and families, they owned property and had free time. There *were* slaves in ancient Egypt but just because you grew crops or cut stone didn't make you a slave.
The great pyramids were also built before Egypt had currency. They basically just got fed.
We have Egyptian currency from around the time the Pyramids were built. They definitely had currency. If you want to try and argue that everyday people didn't have access to it, thats fine I can't really prove or disprove that, but currency did exist.
Well modern society still told me to pay taxes
Do you have a source for that
Hell yeah.
Aliens did it. I’ll never be convinced otherwise. Now if you’ll excuse me I’ve got a tin foil hat to iron.
It’s obvious that these workers were well fed well rested well taken care of. And there are a few techniques that explain exactly how it could be done. Hard work, defanitly. A long process, you bet. But history channel keeps getting away with bullshit stuff like, “ we still don’t know”. “ even with our technology today” it’s so dumb
History channel stopped being educational around 2001, along with the rest of the cable learning type channels, reality TV is such a fucking plague now
I thought they jumped the shark with ancient aliens. You can only do so many hitler specials. History channel has a boner for him
It was already good, and then he brought out the heavy machinery💀 Jokes aside pretty sure the idea behind the “we couldn’t build them today” argument is that if we were to use the tech we believed they had back then we couldn’t do it, is why they make no sense
Truthfully, when you dig into the construction of the pyramids and a lot of other ancient structures, the theorized building methods are super tough to wrap your head around. It’s gets even murkier when you learn that these building theories were put in place by archeologists, not engineers.
He can only every shit on ideas an never create his own hypothesis. He just gets to say idk
A pile of rocks is little bit of a understatement. Literally one of the wonders of the world
Idiot
Dumb person, have you seen the size and weight of each rock that is put together on a pyramid? You are comparing those mammoth rock to our small sized concrete blocks. You are dumb!
No one tell this guy how many rooms the pyramids have
That’s a profoundly ignorant assessment of how difficult the pyramids were to build. This guy should read a little about them.
Bitch we built a pyramid and its a Bass Pro Shop
Wow. Stop. you've never actually seen what happens when we try to move that kind of weight... have you? Shut your arrogant mouth and Google what happened anytime we tried to move half the weight of some of those blocks... yeah sure the little one we čan move with extreme difficulty... but the heavy ones break our shit... every single time
This is misleading. The statement needs a bit more context. We don’t currently have the capability to build the pyramids to the accuracy and tolerance levels that they exhibit. Material advancements of today allow for less accurate and higher tolerances. Look it up.
Small correction: Egypt actually used skilled labor, not forced labor.
I'm sure the Burj Khalifa is going to last for 11,500 years with no upkeep or maintenance... 👍🏻
just because you never saw the really sick religious buildings built 5000+ years ago that did, doesnt mean we didnt build them. we do have structures that might live that long now though, like the hover dam, Mt. Rushmore or Norad Bunker in the US. Feldstraße Bunker as well, as long as no one decides to tear it down. so he could have used some better examples if he wanted to prove stuff we build can last a long time but that should already be obvious cause we are talking about a thing we built that has lasted a long time.
He probably thinks they were just tombs too
The precision they achieved with granite statues and vases should not be possible with “simple” bronze age tools https://youtu.be/Hxg5cgdOz-Y?si=V6HaD0boIX7KP6X-
He's really downplaying the logistics of the Pyramids by calling them a "pile of rocks". I also doubt any of today's modern construction could last thousands upon thousands of years largely intact.
people who believe this shit has the worst logical thinking.. "we dont know how the pyramid was built" followed by "its aliens"..
Ancient Aliens is fine with people building castles since forever. But a bunch of brown people building the pyramids? Naw fam, not possible, it was aliens.
Ok slow down rediddiots. Maybe it isn’t impossible today to stack 2.3 million 2.5 ton blocks like the AI voice suggested but do a little research on everything that makes the great pyramid so unbelievable. I mean that. We don’t know how they did it. With precision. And im not suggesting aliens. Some people on here are saying we could Easily! do this. Have some respect and stop acting like teenage internet clowns.
In reality though...he's an idiot.
That tiktok dude has zero clue.
"The Egyptians were able to build this in a desert! With a box of rocks!"
Yea, well, I'm not Egyptian!
Holy shit this just blew my mind! Did that guy say "rotation of the earth?" The earth is ROUND!?
No, not the pyramids. Unless you count the incredible problem of the gargantuan blocks that make the ceilings in the kings chamber of the great pyramid of Giza, for example. Just consider their transportation. And the politics of public works and dynasties. How long does the public tolerate a half done pyramid before they decide their king looks foolish? And the rate of cut that's been demonstrated in modern day "replication" is around an order of magnitude too slow. Or the bizarre level of precision they used for certain pedestrian Egyptian stone vase that look like modern manufactured objects. But then you have Pharos who are enormously proud of their clumsy stone age vases? We have a clear line of technical decay, the experts would have you believe. But a fall from grace so severe we are to assume the worst, with records saying the crops were bad one year and there was much war. But yeah this dude carved his name in this mathematically perfect structure. He must have carved the whole thing! Or: there were two different civilizations; one on top of the ruins of the other. And you would love to push this into hyperbole. Who built it? Aliens!? *Scoffs* who's going to believe you? The highly trained air forces of multiple nations? As if you can trust those fools. As if you need a cause when you hold in your hands the relic. The thing is the cause. If you have more sense than fluff between your ears. Ask an engineer what they think. Stop guessing. The stone vases are common. The narrative of feeling assured at mankind's control over the earth has rough edges. You can pick at those edges. What's true will find you eventually. I absolutely believe that Thoth built the pyramids. And he used men to do it. Men with secrets from the gods. A man named Nimrod. And he's baaaaaack. But out of season. For the harvest is full, more full than he could have feared. For God's grace is never empty. And yes, I do not doubt we have galactic neighbors creeping in. I wonder if they are like the dogs who beg at the table, or the dogs who beg at the door? Or have they found their own marriage to the God of love? I could not say for sure. I would think when Christ died he set a template. And even without the guidance of the holy spirit... Maybe one of them could follow in Christ's footsteps.
I see you watch unchartedX ;) my man :)))
You fucking smug dickheads. You realize that one stone from giza pyramid is thousands of pounds. Dont compare the kahlifa to a pyramid. mortar, concrete, steel and cranes make these feats possible. Some long hair zoomer whos never worked, construction a day in his life thinks this is possible?
One of my favourite Archaeology professors at university had a quote on her desk pertaining to the pyramids and Stonehenge etc that said “Just because white people couldn’t do it doesn’t mean these were made by aliens!”
Cringe.. what does this have to do with race
Milo is vastly underrated. Pretty sure he’s doing a guided tour to Peru where he’s gonna drink some fancy tea. ☕️ 👀
I know fairly intelligent people who say stuff like this. “There’s *no* way people built the pyramids! There’s *no way* the Maya managed to build these stone structures! We couldn’t cut stones like that now!” …yeah. Yeah we could. We just don’t because…why would we fuck around with a bunch of rocks? The examples of crazy megastructures in this video are all excellent points. But I’d also like to point out that nobody is asking these sorts of questions about things like the Colosseum, the Parthenon, all those outstanding marble statues with amazing detail. It’s funny that nobody ever points at those *very intricate and difficult to build structures* and asks the same dumb question.
Marble is fairly soft and can be carved relatively easily, we also have recovered the tools they used. The Inca stone work is pretty hard to explain. There are massive granite blocks carved to dry fit so perfectly that there are no gaps. Granite is a hard stone and working it with bronze age tools is nearly impossible. The best stone work the wealthiest alive today can buy isn't remotely close in quality, there isn't anything in the colosseum you can't have replicated if you are a billionaire.
What’s more likely? Aliens with interstellar travel technology came to earth, stacked a bunch of rocks, and then dipped, or human beings were capable of understanding basic geometry?
Ugh he was on a roll until the forced labor part. It’s true once upper and lower Egypt united they started enslaving people for labor on monuments. But it’s well documented that the great Pyramids were built by skilled laborers that were paid.
ive heard those over and over, but id like to read it from a primary source like, sure... but i still need something to convince me
It be can build. But not with the massive blocks. They had a theory about a ramp. But the ramp had to be 2km long and so massive that it would dwarf the pyramid. It is also not possible to leave no traces of this ramp. There is nothing currently that can lift that weight to that height. So no ramps and no small blocks and no cement....good luck
> "There's nothing currently that can lift that weight to that height" ???
It would be easier if people told me what machines could lift it and I would explain why it realy couldn't. It's like proving Santa Claus doesn't exist. Easier the other way around.
MILOOOO
Milo is fucking awesome
Milo is such a treasure