Posted on 01/01/2011 11:28:29 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
Great Secret In Pyramid Construction Finally Revealed
The Egyptians had a secret that allowed construction of the pyramids.
Labor Unions! I am not kidding. I about fell off my stationary bike today watching Egypt’s Ten Greatest Discoveries.
The great genius Zahi Hawass came to this conclusion because:
There is evidence that some of them had their broken bones cared for (thus they had union healthcare) They ate a very good diet consisting of fresh fish and grains.
Some of their organizers were buried in granite tombs composed of discard of the pharaoh’s tombs they were working on so these were the highly valued community organizers.
Some of us less intelligent people might think that slaves were a valuable commodity especially since so many of them would be needed and this is why they were given good food and medical care.
Of course we would be wrong.
That is why Dr. Hawass is such brilliant person. He could be called an “Egyptian Al Gore” so great is his intellect!
I again didn’t believe my ears but when preparing this post this Labor Union fact is even mentioned in the Wikipedia article about this series. Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt's_Ten_Greatest_Discoveries
The Old Kingdom Egyptians were one of the first to organize a functioning civil society.
But we’ll never stop arguing the WHY of the Great Pyramids. People just can’t agree it was all to feed the ego of a ruler. Every theory has some kind of ulterior motive and “keeping people busy for its own sake” is one of the perennial favorites.
Keep in mind that until the climate settled down around ten thousand years ago for our current interglacial period agrarian civilization could not develop.
The chaotic, ever-shifting climate and vegetation patterns of an ice-age world meant the whole dang planet could only support a few million wandering hunter-gatherers. Something to keep in mind when we talk about the Ice Ages returning.
Never forget for a minute that Egypt is a rotten, impoverished, dictatorship where promotion and longevity in government circles is determined by loyalty to the Man.
And like in all unfree countries, if you’re a gringo who plans to make his career working and studying there you gotta play ball from your first field trip to your last dying breath or you’re persona non grata.
Maybe one of these days an “Anonymous” will write a riveting expose of the whole rotten system but I doubt it. I don’t have to be told to know that everybody knows everybody in the wonderful world of Egyptology and if you’re an academic who drops dime I imagine it won’t take five minutes to figure out who you have to be and if necessary your whole department will be made to suffer.
There’s no getting away from dirty old politics anywhere in the world of mankind. I recall reading a passage from former Soviet-dissident-turned-Israeli-politician Anatoly Scharansky’s memoir “Fear no Evil” where he talks about how he and his fellow Russian Jews inclined towards science and academia to try and insulate themselves from the ugly reality of the system they lived under, without success as events proved...
Lord only knows what revelations will be brought to light if and when the Mubarak Dynasty goes down and something approaching democracy takes its place. There’ll be some embarrassing revelations alright. Imagine a combination of the worst of banana republic politics mixed with the worst of academic feuding and ass-kissing and you’ll have yourself some material.
What it must be like to have to be a female scholar climbing that greasy pole would no doubt make even Bill Clinton do a double-take.
The Pyramids were built with BEER!
All workers got free Beer and as much as they wanted, along with Meat at every meal (most Egyptian farmers/peasants got meat once or twice a month). They did get health care and for working on the project—tax relief. BUT the most important thing they got was the promise of ETERNAL LIFE for them and their families in the life to come! The power of religious belief is mighty! I only hope they got this reward at least and got to party with the Gods in their version of heaven.
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Never happen - a republic form of democracy in Egypt — will become another strict Islam theocracy. The Muislim Brotherhood - the founders of Al Quada (and incidentally BHO’s Egyptian supporters) will make sure of it, right after they eliminate the Coptic population.
The entire middle east is a rotten, impoverished, dictatorship where ... government ... is determined by ... Islam and Sharia Law.
As long as Islam exists, there can be no other form of government in the Middle East. And what really is the truth in antiquity will remain hidden, since just about everything in antiquity contradicts Islam.
Did you know that the Saudis, for one, regularly destroy all sites and artifacts from Mohamand’s time and before?
The pyramids and other ancient Egyptian artifacts only still exist for one reason: the tourist dollar. Same for the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
I have read of how the wahabists trashed Mecca and Medina when they twice captured them.
And how rumors of bulldozing of archaeological sites of interest goes on to this day.
The Muslim Brotherhood has made noises from time to time of dismantling the pagan ancient monuments. The Taliban certainly did that.
Fascinating and illuminating article ... thanx
The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2004 edition has a fascinating article by Saad Eddin Ibrahim “An Open Door” about the all but forgotten “liberal age” of democratic experimentation in the Arab World, roughly from the mid-1800’s to the mid-1900’s beginning with Napoleon’s brief incursion into Egypt and ending with the humiliation of the 1948 “Defeat in Palestine” and the rise of Pan-Arabisms’ socialist dictators.
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How do a bunch of slaves go about forming a union?
Israeli Plagues Kill many Egyptians as cycle of violence continues
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Posted on 04/01/2004 3:01:14 PM PST by yonif
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1109613/posts
They didn’t even have coinage back then!
Spoken like a true Supply Corps officer!
Some things are a constant in this Universe.
Arabs hate Jews (and everybody else)
The origins/building of the pyramids debate rages
GGG pings are interesting
And, last, but not least, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1109613/posts?page=3#3
He had a charisma comparable to the Goracle..
Did you know that the Saudis, for one, regularly destroy all sites and artifacts from Mohamand’s time and before?
This is true through out the Muslims world. I heard of an archeologist in Libya, where I lived some years ago, bring a Roman artifact to the Museum director, who took one look at it and threw it against the wall, screaming "It's not Arab!"
So chavanistic, and so insecure.
Perhaps what is being called unions was in fact guilds. Guilds developed power over more than a milleneum in Europe. The Masons started out as the guild of workers who built the great cathedrals of Europe. Guilds often had a hereditary inheritance component as well as a detailed apprenticeship for new workers.
The Egyptians probably had a solid core of trained workers, supplemented by farmers during periods of the year when they could not farm, like when the Nile flooded. Since they were needed to grow food it would not have made sense to mistreat and kill them.
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