Ancient Egyptian pyramids weren't built for who we thought, study suggests
Ancient Egyptian pyramids weren't built for who we thought, study suggests

Ancient Egyptian pyramids weren't built for who we thought, study suggests

Ancient Egyptian pyramids weren't built for who we thought, study suggests
Ancient Egyptian pyramids weren't built for who we thought, study suggests
My first thought is whether they might be like the workers on the Great Wall of China, whose remains were entombed in it as they died.
Yeah, they very much thought you could take it with you, and "it" includes servants and slaves.
Human sacrifice, shabti traditions mutating, making sure the most likely tomb thieves were dead...
All seem more likely to me than letting peasants mooch off of your eternal life machine.