Yes, I can read, but that still doesn’t address the human sacrifice issue. They could have started construction at her birth, stopped and started at various times during her life. Then on her death they could have killed all her slaves and courtiers and entombed them. The author didn’t disprove that possibility. They didn’t define what a “relatively long” construction time was. I don’t care if they did or did not perform ritual executions. I’m complaining about the lack of logic in their interpretation. Are they eager to dispel the idea of human sacrifice? If so, why?
Not sure why they want to dispel that. This particular Pharaoh was from the first dynasty, when there was some human sacrifices in the form of retainer sacrifices. Archaeological evidence points to this being abandoned in subsequent dynasties. So we know it was there initially, and then for some reason it died down. This is also recorded by the ancient Greeks.