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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (2 children)

From what archaeologists have discovered, the builders were paid laborers.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

that, and wasn't it also kind of a tax duty? "gotta work X days a year on the pyramids".

Although, given how long the civilization was around, all of it might have been true at some point

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It was the first ever pyramid scheme in recorded history

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You had to recruit two friends to work on the pyramid and they had to each recruit two friends.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

They found stone tax records from the workers