TIL that building the Great Pyramid only required about 1 to 2 % of Ancient Egypt’s GDP-equivalent, according to leading Egyptologists. Despite its size, it barely strained the Old Kingdom economy, which had a huge agricultural surplus.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/builders.html
#til #todayilearned
This is 💩
Nobody knows shit about Egypt’s economy. There’s essentially zero records from that time period.
That era is the bleeding edge of human history.
To put that into context, Julius Caesar looked the pyramids and those pyramids were older to him than Caesar is to us.
Reddit is shit.
Stop linking a site everyone here hates.
Just post the material here.
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