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Archeologists discover 2 giant sphinxes at the lost 'Temple of a Million Years' built by a great pharaoh in Egypt 3,300 years ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/archeologists-discover-2-giant-sphinxes-at-the-lost-temple-of-a-million-years-built-by-a-great-pharaoh-in-egypt-3300-years-ago/ar-AAT1Var?
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Silent3
(15,210 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)Not even sure which of many bodily ones I would consider petite, medium, or giant.
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)calimary
(81,238 posts)wnylib
(21,447 posts)Karadeniz
(22,513 posts)courtesan at some point in ancient Greece was known as the Sphinx.Hmmm....
intheflow
(28,464 posts)built the sphinxes to resemble cats because there was a leader who liked to grab pussies? Sounds plausible.
Karadeniz
(22,513 posts)Diraven
(517 posts)When they triggered a hidden trap and were chased from temple by a gigantic rolling stone ball.
Mysterian
(4,587 posts)An almost incredible civilization.
Zorro
(15,740 posts)than Caesar was to the reign of Khufu and the construction of the Great Pyramid.
Agreed, an almost incredible civilization for almost four millenia.
paleotn
(17,912 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,589 posts)BlueSpot
(855 posts)iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)(little known fact)
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)ripcord
(5,372 posts)catchnrelease
(1,945 posts)The Egyptian monuments were not built by slaves, no matter what Hollywood would like you to believe. For a good part of the year after the Nile's annual flood, people would go to work on these projects and were paid in grain etc to sustain themselves until the waters receded and they could go back to their farms.
Also, families would send male members to serve as craftsmen on the projects. They were housed and fed in settlements/towns that surrounded the monument being worked on. I'm not saying they lived in luxury but they were not slaves. I've read it described as more like a temporary army, conscripted by the Pharoah.
Coventina
(27,115 posts)catchnrelease
(1,945 posts)I'm just finishing a good book on building the great pyramid and this morning read about how the early historian Heroditus may be the source of the slave builders myth. He apparently ran the gamut of excellent reporting on things, to passing along essentially old wives tales that people would tell him. One of those was how Pharaoh would compel Egyptians--not slaves--to labor for him. Over time it morphed to be slaves.
The slave story has long been a pet peeve of mine.
DBoon
(22,363 posts)More like working for NASA part of the year to help create the next moon rocket.
onethatcares
(16,167 posts)or WPA/CCC
kept the people busy and fed and trades were learned.
Mysterian
(4,587 posts)Not a bad gig if you ask me.
Metro135
(359 posts)Ancient Egypt is one of my passions. These were found at the funerary temple of Amenhotep III, the grandfather of King Tut. The temple was partially destroyed by an earthquake in late antiquity. Archeological excavation has been going on there for quite some tme.
Descriptions of the temple from ancient times -- although the ancient Egyptians did have a tendency to embellish -- make the original structure sound absolutely unbelievable. Would you believe doors encased in gold?
onethatcares
(16,167 posts)golden toilets? Like someone would actually do something like that..
This posted just fine for me yesterday. Today can't seem to
post anything. And I've been posting here at Eschaton for at least 10-15 years