>and possibly slave labor.

I thought the modern understanding was that they most likely weren't slaves?

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Downvoting because I'm envious this subreddit allowed your post but not mine

Probably because they were looted.

I think it's a little rude to call them pre-science. They had amazing engineers that could build giant pyramids and move heavy blocks of stone really high up off the ground via a clever system of ramps, pulleys, and possibly slave labor.

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Yes, the headline was misleading and the article lacked substance. My superficial knowledge suggests that mummification was part of an elaborate set of incantations and rituals somewhat described in the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

This short video gives a brief description of what the funerary process was about. Mummification was just one element. https://youtu.be/1yv_MXNYbAo

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History is full of misconceptions I can only imagine what people will think of us today in the year 4000.

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For what reason did you just post Fighter Mafia propaganda in this thread? You have one little link and a bunch of stuff puffing him up and lying about what he and his clique wanted the F-16 to be.

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I was under the impression that no bodies/mummies have ever been found in the pyramids.

Well regarding the Pyramids of Giza it's just a modern theory that they were used as tombs. No mummies, bodies or human remains has ever been found in them.

The inside chambers are completely bare with no ornaments, inscriptions or traces of ones passing into the afterlife.

It's quite interesting since they are dated as the oldest of pyramids.

You don’t think they came up with ideas, tested them, and then verified the outcome?

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Not sure where you heard that. Pyramids were an evolution in grandeur of mastabas which were themselves an effort to better preserve the bodies by preventing them being uncovered by the wind or scavenging animals.

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Some one consult Wallis Budge about this.

Horus still had to be guided to the Other Side. If I’m not mistaken, the reason pyramids are pyramids is to help the soul ascend to “Heaven”.