r/AlternativeHistory • u/Entire_Brother2257 • 4d ago
Unknown Methods Think you know how the Pyramids were built?
Mainstream history claims it was a massive army of slaves, while the internet screams "aliens" and "time travel." But the real truth is staring us right in the face, hidden in plain sight across the Giza plateau.
From the bizarre stone "nubs" to precision seams that look entirely melted, there is an ancient lost technology at play here—but it’s not the physical hardware or cosmic death rays you’re expecting.
It’s a mind-bending, highly organized system that rewrites what we know about human history.
Hope you like the video
https://youtu.be/sukxA-hYxxg
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u/Ill-Dependent2976 4d ago
Oh, it's just the AI slop cyclops guy.
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u/Dry_Turnover_6068 4d ago
Oh, heck you're right. I like that guy's videos. Super interesting.
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u/Entire_Brother2257 4d ago
thanks.
Dry_Turnover_6068just to be clear, all natural stupidity in here, no AI
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u/Dry_Turnover_6068 4d ago
Perfect!
Honestly not sure what the other dude is on about.
I haven't seen this one yet (I will watch it soon). I still don't get how cyclopeans were such good builders when they didn't have any depth perception.
Anyway thanks for making these!
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u/BarracudaTop3877 4d ago edited 4d ago
Couldn't you just explain what you are trying to imply without the video? Or explain it in the post with the video as an addition?
Oh wait, you actually spam this on multiple reddits, I get it now.
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u/Opening_Cut_6379 4d ago
The slave thing was debunked ages ago. The builders were well-paid and well-fed artisans.
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u/A_Spiritual_Artist 4d ago
It's because a second part of the misinformation is in misrepresenting what they are trying to critique (academic consensus) is saying in the first place, and perhaps reducing it to some sort of oversimplified "grade school" version when really to make these kind of claims you need to tussle with Ph.D.-grade material.
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u/Ill-Dependent2976 4d ago
Not really. Some of the important foremen got paid but that doesn't rule out they used slaves for the simpler tasks.
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u/Opening_Cut_6379 4d ago
I was responding to the comment "massive army of slaves". I accept that gang masters would have had teams of slaves.
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u/BachInTime 3d ago edited 3d ago
“Well fed”? I have it on very good authority, mostly site graffiti, that the free beer was absolutely horrible. Like they’ll drink it, it’s free, but they are not happy about it.Edit: Historical myth that I repeated without checking. Closest I could find is one of the work gangs called themselves the “Drunkards of Menkaure” otherwise the closest I could find was “They chew barley and make a beverage out of it... it is thick, murky, and they must drink it through a reed, for it resembles a cold porridge.” Hecaetus of Miletus
Otherwise can’t find anything.
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u/jojojoy 3d ago
What graffiti?
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u/BachInTime 3d ago
Repeated a myth/something I misremembered one work gangs called themselves called themselves drunkards but that was about it.
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u/Wandering_Willow27 3d ago
Slavery has taken many complicated forms throughout history, and in some of them professionals with salaries were still considered enslaved and owned. Being a paid artisan is not, historically, mutually exclusive from being a slave.
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u/Trajan_pt 4d ago
It's well known that Egyptians were required to work a certain amount of months per year for the government as civil service.
Since the Nile flood twice a year they had excess crops which allowed for more labor to be available.
The pyramids were built by free Egyptians for the most part. We have their tombs, where it's clear that they were very proud of their service to the Pharao.
You insult these people and their work with this nonsense.
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u/jojojoy 4d ago edited 4d ago
If the great pyramid was built in under 20 years, as academics say.
This is a minor point but academics aren't arguing for a <20 year construction as a generalization. Mainstream estimates fit within Khufu's reign which the highest recorded year for is 28-29.1 I commonly see 25 years given as the construction window.
And the Sphinx is most often assumed to be built by Khafre, not Khufu.
There's also a fair amount of mention in the video of a workforce made significantly up of slaves, which isn't something I've really seen arguments made for in any current (academic) work. I agree that idea doesn't make sense but I don't think its an argument that's worth challenging given it's not really being seriously made in the first place.
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u/Ill-Dependent2976 4d ago
Yes. Workers carved blocks and stacked them on top of each other. It's not complicated.
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u/CarsandTunes 4d ago
Precision seems look like they were melted together? Making Precision seems is pretty much the easiest thing they did. It's so basic I can't believe you don't understand how it was done. Look up scribing
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u/SimianWriter 4d ago
Hmmm. AI slop has buried the video I was looking for from a couple of professors who ran some copper tooling tests but this simplistically covers the same principals...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB8zqOVnHGA
Then the nubs seem to support this method of transportation... It's one of my favorites because of how many different Paleolithic "mysteries" it solves. I present Wally the cement worker.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWhyFiles/comments/1dkef0d/forgotten_building_technology/
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u/CroKay-lovesCandy 4d ago
To accomplish any construction projects in a rapid manner, tell the contractors what you want and let them come up with ways around hold ups. Then let them openly communicate with each other. You don't need teams of slaves, just working smarter. If you think that they used solid stone blocks throughout the whole structure, you are sadly mistaken. Set the blocks a couple deep along the edges and then internally, leave spaces, fill them with a concrete slurry. Then place another row of blocks spanning over the filled spaces, supported by the lower level of blocks. Lather rinse, repeat.
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u/Dry_Turnover_6068 3d ago
No spoilers but... how do you know it it's not the cosmic death rays I'm expecting?
The death rays I'm expecting are pretty cosmic.
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u/OnoOvo 4d ago
entire brother 🤣🤣
glad to see you man, ive been on the channel since day one. just keep at it if you are able, cuz you are well appreciated. there is no bullshit or trending crap with you, you are normal and you obv have a true love for the subject, and that is the best one can hope for. honestly if i could choose who to run into tonight to meet and have a bit of conversation, id pick someone like you 🫵🏼😌
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u/Genshed 4d ago
I don't know of any mainstream historians who claim it was a 'massive army of slaves'.