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minus-squareCodingAndCoffee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoThat’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.🤦♂️
minus-squarescutiger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoThe 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.
minus-square5in1k@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoThere’s a reason people set up shop there multiple times through human history. Geographically it makes sense.
minus-squareNapain@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoliterally 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
minus-squarevoid@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoI 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
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