That first image and popular imagery in movies are starting to feel like a coordinated plot by the Egyptian tourist board to promote more mystique around these structures… a pyramid scheme, if you will
Take your upvote and get out.
Pizza the Tut
Oh thank god, a pizza hut! I’m saved after days of wandering lost in the Giza gift shop. What do you mean I must make a purchase to get a glass for water?
It would be even more real if one of those photos had a plastic bag flying through the air.
I never realized how close to Cairo they were.
What’s with the object replacement character (“”)?
Either the site or your device cant display the correct thing. I have “obj” also and i am on an older phone. I am guessing its a pyramid emoji we are missing.
Is it showing up under my comment? I didn’t use any emojis if so.
Weird. Doesn’t show that at all in my end.
Did this comment reproduce it? If so, I think I figured it out.
yes. what did you do?
That’s both super unsurprising and super disappointing. Of COURSE they’re right next to civilization. I don’t know why I somehow bought the idea they’d be way out in the desert.🤦♂️
The pyramids are way out in the desert. Cairo is also way out in the desert. Egypt is basically a desert with a river running through it.
There’s a reason people set up shop there multiple times through human history. Geographically it makes sense.
literally everything ever “makes sense when you think abou it” it doesn’t mean that ut can’t be wondrous or something you could have fun with
I don’t understand why people think it looked like that 4000y ago…
The closest settlement, Giza, looked like this in 1800 CE (!): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Description_de_l'Egypte_-_Etat_Moderne_-_Pl_16.jpg
You can look on a map how far it is to the pyramids from there…
Edit: ugh, link is broken. 🙄 Scroll down to history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza
i knew of this but it’s insane every time. is that a golf course?
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