[HeadOn]

Hey guys. Tell me what ELSE the Egyptian Pharohs had to do thousands of years ago? The richest man/woman on the planet at the time didn't have to take the kids to football and cheerleader practice, didn't have to report to the boss and punch a clock at 8:00am sharp everyday.

Now, just think what your imagination might come up with if you could do ANYTHING YOU WANTED to do, and had the juice to get your hundreds of thousands of slaves to put their backs into it for as long as the daylight held out. Build cities? Build gosh-awful tombs? You bet. Nothing else to do, either for the Pharohs or for the slaves. Come off it. I don't believe there were magical, or alien, connections. It's nothing that a couple of million slaves couldn't pull off, if the engineers designed it properly. IT HAD THE FULL ATTENTION OF THE EMPIRE, for pity's sake.

By the way, we have it on good authority that the Taj Mahal was built to be a tomb. Is that too elaborate? Tough. That one's a tomb - no question.

[RightWhale]

what ELSE the Egyptian Pharohs had to do thousands of years ago

Nothing much. Just administer the entire civilized world from Addis Ababa to Baghdad, keep the sea peoples at bay, and handle the usual judicial disputes. Then there was the annual Nile Flood, grain stores, diplomats from India and Mexico, and road and school maintenance. On top of that, agriculture, manufacture, and mining need constant regulation. Papyrus and limestone production alone would be enough to occupy the full attention of most. It is well they didn't actually have millions of slaves because slave administration is a thankless task. Pharoah isn't just an honorary title, that one worked hard and died young due to overwork.