[beebuster2000]

the mind boggles at the % of the Egypt nations GDP went into the pyramid, and for what? stimulus? hmmm.....

[DonaldC]

“the mind boggles at the % of the Egypt nations GDP went into the pyramid, and for what? stimulus? hmmm..... “

I guess it depends on how one values the focus of society and given how long Ancient Egypt lasted, maybe they were doing something right.

[MNDude]

at least they have something to show for their stimulus.

Obama could have done something, anything better with his trillions he spent— dig a hole to the center of the world, send a man to Mars, build a tunnel to Japan, irrigate all of Death Valley, even build a mile high lolipop would be something to show for for all that money, but he’s got nothing to show!

[Red_Devil 232]

stimulus? Exactly!

[KamperKen]

""the mind boggles at the % of the Egypt nations GDP went into the pyramid, and for what? stimulus?"

I posted a while back on this same subject. Since ancient Egypt would have been largely subsistence agriculture, it was not possible to consume most of the nations disposable product to build something of no identifiable economic utility.

What I believe is one of the misconceptions surround its history is that it was built in the agricultural 'off season', though there is no such thing as an off season for near-subsistence living; one is always engaged in some form of economic activity if it's not agriculture at the moment.

It was certainly built by humans and not aliens or supernatural agencies, but not over the course of a single Pharaoh's reign. It was probably built over centuries, if not millenia. The largest temple of the Classical world, the temple of Jupiter in Athens, took 700 years to complete, finally being completed during the reign of Hadrian. Why would one reasonably expect that the far more massive Great Pyramid was built in less time?

There is a curiosity worth contemplating that somewhat corroborates the above. If one does an image search on "Khufu", all that shows up is small, two inch high ivory figurine. That's the only (possibly) contemporary image we have of the builder of what would reign as the greatest human structure in both height and mass for almost 5000 years. One would think that the monarch responsible for this enormous monument would memorialize himself as well in an equally massive way.

The conventional wisdom and chronology I believe to be incorrect, along with many others, who are far more knowledgeable than me on this topic.

[Recon Dad]

....what’s wrong with you...this was a shovel ready project.