• Jorgelino@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    They weren’t just “dragging heavy bricks” though. They had pulley systems and used many techniques such as boats, sleighs or logs lubricated by animal fat to transport the stones. Obviously still hard work but far from the depiction we see in the media with people being whipped while pushing giant stones uphill.

    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Yeah, they used a lot of things that we use today in a more advanced form.

      It’s just these cartoons are historically incorrect, but they give highschoolers a great inspiration to pray for OSHA and 8\5 day rather than praying for the pharaoh and his last apartments.

      It seems like a good result.