• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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    2 months ago

    For anyone who doesn’t read the article due to the dogshit clickbait headline: they were not built for Pharoah, but in fact built for your mom’s cavernous coochie

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    2 months ago

    My first thought is whether they might be like the workers on the Great Wall of China, whose remains were entombed in it as they died.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, they very much thought you could take it with you, and “it” includes servants and slaves.

  • KevinFRK@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Human sacrifice, shabti traditions mutating, making sure the most likely tomb thieves were dead…

    All seem more likely to me than letting peasants mooch off of your eternal life machine.