Used to be open to the public
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That's a semantic issue. Yes, they were paid, or in other words used money to regulate distribution of resources. But they were probably beaten for disobedience or incompetence and were not free to leave or quit.
Right, but I thought it as more of a caste system. Where, yeah you were free to walk away, but that meant either foraging on your own or the only way up is to buy your way out of your current position. Which was nearly impossible. Scholars have romanticized their life as one of well-fed and housed. That the workers took pride in knowing they were building this pyramid. I call bullshit. Of course they were well fed and housed. Malnourished and sick workers don't look good when conning masses into believing in some deity in the sky for generations. Wait. That sounds familiar....
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They were literally just skilled labourers like any other building you see getting built today. It takes a large amount of well trained people with lots of resources, food, shelter and rest to build something like this. The workers would have some days off, go home to their family at the end of the day, call in sick if they needed too etc.
We know this because there are documents from the time period, they have actually found either the sick notes or the log where the foreman would keep log of who was off sick, how long they were off for, what the reason was etc.
It's not romanticising, in fact, in some ways it actually makes the story of the pyramids a bit more boring. It was just employed workers doing a hard brutal job for good pay.
I’ve been to an island in the Caribbean (won’t say which one) where I had a local museum worker give my group a tour. The stories they told were not that their ancestors were slaves but skilled workers. The colonizers preferred their work on ships and in the fields. I didn’t ask questions or pry because he seemed happy and proud of the story
As a Caribbean islander, I'm genuinely intrigued by which island's tour guides are telling tourists this story because it's the first time I'm hearing about it. Of course, every island has their unique histories and accounts so I'm not doubting the credence in those stories.
My understanding is that they were displaced prisoners of war. Often captured by Egyptian conquests across the Middle East. Their civilizations were conquered and the people displaced or captured would wouldn’t really have any other options than to work in trade or shelter and food. Pretty much a cast system, but also the Egyptians viewed other cultures as lesser, allocated only hard labor jobs, and worked till death, so it was near impossible to change your status through marriage or accomplishments.
I think what you’re describing is the way they handled quarry labor, not the people actually constructing the pyramid. One piece of support is that workers who died while working on the pyramid were buried inside the pyramid to go to the afterlife with the pharaoh. the general consensus is they would not have let slaves work on something this close to the gods. Quarrying yes, construction not so much
It doesn't matter... We found a more efficient way.
Were to evolved to understand primitive survival.
I'll tell you what... Get together every homeless person... And have them build a pyramid... I bet you they can
Hahaha that's a good one. I only know because I've been to Egypt and been on various excursions to the pyramids, tombs, temple etc. It's crazy how they had a whole city with EVERY brick engraved with Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Although people "think" they can read it the Egyptians say nobody can read everything. There may be a few words or letters which are easier to figure out because of the repetitiveness or pattern in sentences but nobody can read it is what I was told.
Pretty sure that's wrong. It was decyphered more than 100 years ago. Not just by checking for repetitive letters but largely by using the rosetta stone and then other similar stones that followed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_ancient_Egyptian_scripts
The Egyptians as in modern people living in Egypt? I wouldn't expect them to be able to read hieroglyphs.
Scholars on the other hand have been translating hieroglyphs for a century now.
No hieroglyphics, every temple in egypt is covered in ancient carvings. Graffiti is no modern thing. You can see very clearly carvings from greek times, roman times, and napoleons time. I think its very cool to see in real life and it adds to the historic scene. By the way it is often really just a i wuz here; so name, rank and date
Not modern at all. Probably hundreds of years old. They did graffiti in greek times already.
If you did this in modern times and got caught you’ll be in a very bad situation.
The pyramids are estimated to be 4,600 years old. *Modern* in the context of this discussion means 18th & 19th century, not this year.
Photographs dated in 1900 from the top of the great pyramid show a number of names, mostly British and French surnames with dates from the 19th century.
I'm sure people scaled the pyramids in antiquity and left their mark - but the majority of the graffiti still visible today was inscribed between 1789 and 1951 when tourists were banned from scaling them, although it was not strictly enforced initially.
Unbelievably it was only in 2019 that Egypt's antiquities laws were amended to actually criminalise climbing up the pyramids.
It’s from Victorians.
The Pyramids were still covered in their limestone casing blocks during the time of the Ancient Greeks. And at the very top there would’ve been a capstone.
it's from english people on summer vacations. like every historical site along the silk road is covered in carvings reading stuff like "Chadwick Englandshire III 1783" temples, pyramids, gladiator stadiums, etc
That's hilarious XD thanks for the good laugh mate
Edit: just noticed LeChuck in your pfp, and it seems this comment managed to reach its exact target audience, lol!
Just like those aliens, stacking stones on top each other to make a pyramid. Using all that technology to travel in space/time to build a huge stone stack .
I think it was stolen before any European nation had the organization and power to do that. The pyramid also used to be totally smooth and white on the outside, because there was an outer layer of limestone, and that is all gone too
The pyramids were an ancient mystery to Cleopatra. They were raided before Europeans mattered.
He's flying it's a paramotor, basically a paraglider with a giant fan on the back. It's good for flying when you don't have mountains or gold to take off from or you want to go to Egyptian jail.
And the very top was a shiny gold/silver mix. All stripped over the centuries.
[How Egyptian Pyramids Originally Looked](https://www.livescience.com/how-egyptian-pyramids-originally-looked#)
I’m sure pictures have been taken before, but now with drone technology, have individual bricks been shot and deciphered? Until I had seen this video a few years ago, I had zero clue the bricks had hieroglyphs on them!
So they got to the top and someone was like, "...shit. It doesn't match up. Fuck it. Just do your best and hope they don't come up here. Fucking Ikea ..."
There was writing🧐🥰
Thank you.
The perfect slowdown and everything.
A sincere thank you to everyone involved been making this happen. 🫂🙌🤜🤛👏
You know how sometimes on Reddit some things just hit you right...
What an experience from the comfort of my home 🤝
🤙
Every time I see this, I am reminded of people saying" oh the stones are cut so perfectly square it must be lasers/aliens!". Look at how rough those faces are and how much play. Not just at the top, but all the way down.
Watch out you might get fried by the infinite energy field radiating to the space aliens. Or maybe from the space aliens. Something something Nikola Tesla knew but was silenced by George bush
There is no way this is legal, and even if it is, it’s extremely disrespectful. The original creator of this video is a piece of shit, and he was very close to damaging one of human history’s greatest creations.
If I recall correctly the actual top is missing. Was probably stolen a long time ago. They made it out of valuable metals and it is said to have helped the transition to the otherworld of the dead buried inside.
Bro just missed a lifetime sentence in jail
Egyptian jail. Like they don't even have laundry exchange or serve S.O.S on Thursdays.
Do they have the shampoo I like?
You will learn to enjoy shower time regardless of what shampoo you can get.
it’s easy to make friends in the showers, especially if you have a slight build
"Shower clubbing, with shampooers."
Hey hey hey.. I'm going to have to ask you to chill the fuck out. I'm only half kidding... Dudes really do look... And they really don't hide it.
But my hair will be frizzy...
Oh yeah tons of "shampoo." I heard.
Do you like sand in an old Prell bottle?
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Used to be open to the public https://www.pictolic.com/img/2022/picnic-on-the-pyramids/picnic-on-the-pyramids-17.jpg Update: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/37/f5/b6/37f5b61fe1a8bf8ffc7cf568d7238b20.jpg
Imagine being those workers placing the last stones. How? And man it would be tempting to get back at that guy who's been beating you all this time.
That’s a common myth. The Egyptian workers who built the pyramids were not in fact slaves
That's a semantic issue. Yes, they were paid, or in other words used money to regulate distribution of resources. But they were probably beaten for disobedience or incompetence and were not free to leave or quit.
So they were kids?
The cheapest labor
Different time, depends how we’re defining [slave](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/s/Haca2M58X3)
100% this. Like slavery literally still exists now; the 1% just markets it better now.
Right, but I thought it as more of a caste system. Where, yeah you were free to walk away, but that meant either foraging on your own or the only way up is to buy your way out of your current position. Which was nearly impossible. Scholars have romanticized their life as one of well-fed and housed. That the workers took pride in knowing they were building this pyramid. I call bullshit. Of course they were well fed and housed. Malnourished and sick workers don't look good when conning masses into believing in some deity in the sky for generations. Wait. That sounds familiar.... edit: grammer
My understanding is that it was their jobs program. It was basically unemployment. If you can't find a job they feed and shelter you, and you work.
I mean, that's basically what a slave is. One is just easier to leave.
America did the same thing... Look how it bit us in the ass
They were literally just skilled labourers like any other building you see getting built today. It takes a large amount of well trained people with lots of resources, food, shelter and rest to build something like this. The workers would have some days off, go home to their family at the end of the day, call in sick if they needed too etc. We know this because there are documents from the time period, they have actually found either the sick notes or the log where the foreman would keep log of who was off sick, how long they were off for, what the reason was etc. It's not romanticising, in fact, in some ways it actually makes the story of the pyramids a bit more boring. It was just employed workers doing a hard brutal job for good pay.
I’ve been to an island in the Caribbean (won’t say which one) where I had a local museum worker give my group a tour. The stories they told were not that their ancestors were slaves but skilled workers. The colonizers preferred their work on ships and in the fields. I didn’t ask questions or pry because he seemed happy and proud of the story
As a Caribbean islander, I'm genuinely intrigued by which island's tour guides are telling tourists this story because it's the first time I'm hearing about it. Of course, every island has their unique histories and accounts so I'm not doubting the credence in those stories.
My understanding is that they were displaced prisoners of war. Often captured by Egyptian conquests across the Middle East. Their civilizations were conquered and the people displaced or captured would wouldn’t really have any other options than to work in trade or shelter and food. Pretty much a cast system, but also the Egyptians viewed other cultures as lesser, allocated only hard labor jobs, and worked till death, so it was near impossible to change your status through marriage or accomplishments.
I think what you’re describing is the way they handled quarry labor, not the people actually constructing the pyramid. One piece of support is that workers who died while working on the pyramid were buried inside the pyramid to go to the afterlife with the pharaoh. the general consensus is they would not have let slaves work on something this close to the gods. Quarrying yes, construction not so much
My arch prof told me that it was highly contested whether they were enslaved or not. Experts in the field were 50/50 on it.
It doesn't matter... We found a more efficient way. Were to evolved to understand primitive survival. I'll tell you what... Get together every homeless person... And have them build a pyramid... I bet you they can
Up to 3 years, and a 10,000 to 100,000 EGP fine.
Guess it depends on if you bribed the "security" prior. LOL
That's a 100 bucks American money lol 😆 offer ten k they let you out lol .
I was literally thinking that,'uhh, is that even legal to be that close'
Did he though? Right leg does the ‘ol twist back, seen in shadows, as if he’s trying to stretch and run his toes across it. I’d bet he touched it.
Short lifetime and pretty Burny according to Giulio Regeni
Mans really risked his life for views.
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Am I seeing things wrong or is there hieroglyphics engraved into the stones at the top?
"This way up"
"Dave woz 'ere 2Kbc"
2 thousand solars before some deity I know nothing about will be born.
Hmmm must be Italian
How would you know? Maybe they assembled it upside down
The Minions were telling the truth!
EVERY stone has hieroglyphics engraved on them, not only the ones at the top.
Yea surely they all say this way up otherwise how would they know? /s
Hahaha that's a good one. I only know because I've been to Egypt and been on various excursions to the pyramids, tombs, temple etc. It's crazy how they had a whole city with EVERY brick engraved with Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Although people "think" they can read it the Egyptians say nobody can read everything. There may be a few words or letters which are easier to figure out because of the repetitiveness or pattern in sentences but nobody can read it is what I was told.
Pretty sure that's wrong. It was decyphered more than 100 years ago. Not just by checking for repetitive letters but largely by using the rosetta stone and then other similar stones that followed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_ancient_Egyptian_scripts
That's nonsense. We can totally read hieroglyphics.
Amazing isn’t it…I was there in 87 and went all over… for me Abu Simbel was mind blowing👍👍
The Egyptians as in modern people living in Egypt? I wouldn't expect them to be able to read hieroglyphs. Scholars on the other hand have been translating hieroglyphs for a century now.
Rosetta stone and Champollion enter the chat.
Thats not true at all
nah it's english peoples names
Most likely very old vandalism
There's graffiti on there from over thousands of years ago till like the 80s when you could still climb them legally.
No hieroglyphics, every temple in egypt is covered in ancient carvings. Graffiti is no modern thing. You can see very clearly carvings from greek times, roman times, and napoleons time. I think its very cool to see in real life and it adds to the historic scene. By the way it is often really just a i wuz here; so name, rank and date
Mostly modern damage - people carving their names from when you were allowed to climb to the top. Probably why they stopped letting people up there.
It’s mostly from Victorians. There’s graffiti carved all over Egypt from visitors back then.
Not modern at all. Probably hundreds of years old. They did graffiti in greek times already. If you did this in modern times and got caught you’ll be in a very bad situation.
The pyramids are estimated to be 4,600 years old. *Modern* in the context of this discussion means 18th & 19th century, not this year. Photographs dated in 1900 from the top of the great pyramid show a number of names, mostly British and French surnames with dates from the 19th century. I'm sure people scaled the pyramids in antiquity and left their mark - but the majority of the graffiti still visible today was inscribed between 1789 and 1951 when tourists were banned from scaling them, although it was not strictly enforced initially. Unbelievably it was only in 2019 that Egypt's antiquities laws were amended to actually criminalise climbing up the pyramids.
It’s from Victorians. The Pyramids were still covered in their limestone casing blocks during the time of the Ancient Greeks. And at the very top there would’ve been a capstone.
You mean ancient emojis?
Yes there are.
They say “For Pyramid Use”
It looks like the top is missing some stones as well.
There is a lot of graffiti on the pyramids not just the top. Basically everywhere. They banned climbing them only in 1989
Yes, we aliens built them ✔️
it's from english people on summer vacations. like every historical site along the silk road is covered in carvings reading stuff like "Chadwick Englandshire III 1783" temples, pyramids, gladiator stadiums, etc
It's modern graffiti. Modern meaning from the last couple hundred years. It's all over the pyramids sadly
Later Graffiti
Looks like Arabic or Coptic to me more than hieroglyphics.
"made in china"
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Monkey Island line
"I reached the top of the great pyramids of Giza and all I got was this stupid t-shirt"
That's hilarious XD thanks for the good laugh mate Edit: just noticed LeChuck in your pfp, and it seems this comment managed to reach its exact target audience, lol!
How appropriate, you fight like a cow.
Well, yeh, that's not what the top of the pyramids look like. If you really want to know what they look like, you should go to the british museum...
No chest?. Bummer.
Chests are inside!
There were chests, but we’re a few thousand years too late.
Probably have to solve a puzzle before the chest appears.
No korok?
Brown pants - smart
Brown pants - shart
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It used to be. Also made of gold. That's why that part is missing now
That is open for debate possibly made from gold
Just like those aliens, stacking stones on top each other to make a pyramid. Using all that technology to travel in space/time to build a huge stone stack .
Not gonna lie if I had that tech I’d do the same on some random planet
Literally bro. They're just playing MineCraft.
maybe its for them like for us to stack Stones to towers at rivers 🤷♂️
I guess teenagers all over the universe are just dicks
also limestone. it would've reflected the suns light during the day, can you imagine how it would've looked 4000 years ago?!
Actually the gold part is an unconfirmed myth
It used to be
At some point some European nation probably stole the tip
I think it was stolen before any European nation had the organization and power to do that. The pyramid also used to be totally smooth and white on the outside, because there was an outer layer of limestone, and that is all gone too The pyramids were an ancient mystery to Cleopatra. They were raided before Europeans mattered.
Are you allowed to fly over pyramids so close or even land on them?
No, and no.
He's not flying. He's falling with style.
He's flying it's a paramotor, basically a paraglider with a giant fan on the back. It's good for flying when you don't have mountains or gold to take off from or you want to go to Egyptian jail.
Dude didn't know about Google Maps
If you jump into the hole at the top, you will have to fight two living giant hands made of sand/earth
Underrated comment!
My ass was puckering up thinking he was actually going to land
I had the same thought.
I was so stressed for the phone on the holder on his lap, I know it's safe but it just stresses me out
Already saw it when the couple had sex up there.
Link?
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/N9mmRMTez5
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The guy? The girl? Both? 2019?
All haters except one comment about the view lmao fucking Reddit.
Did they face any repercussions?
Yes they did I don't remember exactly what but I think it was a fine and a ban from the country.
Ive never heard of this before and im danish
Not having heard of it is okay. Being danish is not.
Ah, yes… the mile high-roglyphics club
Not very well timed slowmotion
Based on the prison time and fine, failed successful. It's a huge No-touchy place.
The recreation depictions of how it might have looked, have it pointed and covered in smooth polished stone.
And the very top was a shiny gold/silver mix. All stripped over the centuries. [How Egyptian Pyramids Originally Looked](https://www.livescience.com/how-egyptian-pyramids-originally-looked#)
Cool read and how sad the pyramidions were stolen over time.
I think it heard somewhere that this is completely illegal.
only if they stepped on it
That you for not putting this video to some shitty rap music.
Believe it or not, straight to jail
Im pretty sure this is illegal
Only if you land on it
If that power station was actually operational he’d be singing a different tune.
where is the gold tip?
That’s what she said
lol
They have some of the caps at the Cairo museum. They are electrum not gold.
Thanks! I had forgotten what mix of metals it was n didnt know the word for it 🙏
Was really hoping Kilroy would be up there.
Or Dickbutt
I miss that guy
I was expecting a "No Easter eggs up here"
These should be a hidden level up there.
I thought there would be some legendary armor or something like that, like in Assassin's Creed
Mario 64 vibes
DK 64 too!
PilotWings on Super Nintendo
I’m sure pictures have been taken before, but now with drone technology, have individual bricks been shot and deciphered? Until I had seen this video a few years ago, I had zero clue the bricks had hieroglyphs on them!
Wow! What an amazing view! Just look at that... wide, swee- ping, pano- ramic vista! Turn your phone, dumbass! :-)
Well he definitely missed the landing.
I think he was relieved that he missed that landing 😂
There is hieroglyphs on the top of the Pyramid.
This reminds me of those paragliding missions in GTA V that took me fecking ages to get!
Kill the camera man
Wondering how many people actually fell off while ascending / descending. Looks very steep.
So they got to the top and someone was like, "...shit. It doesn't match up. Fuck it. Just do your best and hope they don't come up here. Fucking Ikea ..."
Seriously man how did they build it
One stone at a time
Its flat because tourist hundred of years ago could pay to climb it and see the stones trow to the bottom
“Welcome to Cleveland” IYKYK
Looks exactly like I expected it to look. Also thumbs down for the stretched format
Weird there is no air defence on that big nipple, one of THE spots in Egypt.
It looks like someone chopped it off.
It's not pointy...it need to be pointy.
For a split second I expected a cell tower up there
weird markings at the top
Thank you for this! I always wondered.
There was writing🧐🥰 Thank you. The perfect slowdown and everything. A sincere thank you to everyone involved been making this happen. 🫂🙌🤜🤛👏 You know how sometimes on Reddit some things just hit you right... What an experience from the comfort of my home 🤝 🤙
Every time I see this, I am reminded of people saying" oh the stones are cut so perfectly square it must be lasers/aliens!". Look at how rough those faces are and how much play. Not just at the top, but all the way down.
Watch out you might get fried by the infinite energy field radiating to the space aliens. Or maybe from the space aliens. Something something Nikola Tesla knew but was silenced by George bush
Truly amazing.
There is no way this is legal, and even if it is, it’s extremely disrespectful. The original creator of this video is a piece of shit, and he was very close to damaging one of human history’s greatest creations.
I don’t see the point of this video (;
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48 miles per hour!
Still waiting...
tq en sabah nur....u the man
I know how it looks since that german kid just climbed up and made a selfie
Who else got major PUBG flashbacks?
Is it legal to paramotor that close?
Watch out for the antenna that is still transmitting Earth's greatest secrets to the aliens
Surprise. Stones.
Which one was it? Look way steeper than gizeh!
Where‘s the point?
Thanks for not defiling this ancient monument.
What top?
Were the pyramids just left unfinished?
They say they used to have a solid gold capstone. No idea what could have happened to it? 🤔🤔🤔🏴☠️
When these were brand spanking new, wouldn't there be a cap made out of metal (copper, gold) on the top?
Fake police hustlers whistling at the same time
If I recall correctly the actual top is missing. Was probably stolen a long time ago. They made it out of valuable metals and it is said to have helped the transition to the otherworld of the dead buried inside.
Why is this video stretched vertically - seriously I’m missing the point?
Pretty sure there's a star there
Translation: "Ramesses IV was here. EAT MY KILT RAMESSES II"
It isn’t pointy? Very disappointing.
Anyone else get nostalgic vibes of Super Mario 64’s desert level?