Egyptian pharaohs stopped building royal pyramids after the New Kingdom period (16th century B.C. - 11th century B.C.). While there is no official or recorded reason behind the ending of pyramid construction, experts hypothesize that security concerns could have been a factor.
According to Harvard University Egyptology professor Peter Der Manuelian, “...since pyramids were inevitably plundered, hiding the royal burials away in a distant valley, carved into the rock and presumably with plenty of necropolis guards, surely played a role." Check out Live Science’s full piece on the topic here.
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Labor shortage when the Hebrews left?
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They ran out of Pharaos or out of stones to buid them? Or they ran out ot labor, estimating that one Pharao-lifetime is not enough to buid one of these, the amounts of Pyramids to be build would outrun the number of Pyramid building workers.. especcially when each worker is supposed to work on an increasing number of Pyramids... Poor first Pharao whose finance minister just said you have to pay for all the pyramids presently under construction, but for you just a hole in the ground has to be enough! And the clever pharao's advisors telling him it is just not safe enough! Go hide in a hole in the ground like some fgitive coward and maybe the godless grave robbers won't steal all the cool stuff from your dead body leaving you barenaked in your afterlife!
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once costco opened we didn't really need pyramids anymore
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Oceans 900BC: The Pyramid Scheme - The Fi-Nile Heist, coming this summer and about 3000 years ago.
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u know costco got those 5 dollar chickens so..
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