Originally posted by inimalist
compotent civil works projects that better society > pyramidstbh, since I've grown, things like pyramids and stonehenge, while cool and mysterious, are things that represent how wrong people can be when it comes to organizing labour.
And when we do make pointlessly elaborate structures we can still make practical use of them.
Originally posted by inimalist
"hey, come look at this"?
Of the two tallest man made things in the modern world Burj Khalifa has people living in it and the Tokyo Sky Tree give line of sight for various messaging systems. The largest (by area) building ever seriously proposed was Crystal Island in Moscow which could hold the whole work force involved in making the pyramids.
Originally posted by Bardock42
What's a nubian?
A person from Nubia a place just south of the empires of Ancient Egypt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6S158_5vLc
That is what I think of now whenever I see the term King Tut. Damn you Steve Buscemi.