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  • Reminds me of my career explaining how to build simple webpages without using large abstraction libraries/frameworks for JavaScript.
    by austin-cheney
  • the wild thing about this is that _we have contemporaneous records of how they were built_. They know the names of architects and managers. There's no mystery to it at all.
    by empath75
  • If aliens built the pyramids they did a pretty shit job. You can see the evolution where they started building a pyramid and realized it would be too high so they changed the angle half-way up. If they had computers and geometry they probably would have gotten it right from the start.
    by comrade1234
  • Related: Masonry Techniques of the Inca’s Master Builders

    https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction

    This article was a fantastic read, and thoroughly debunks a lot of ancient alien style stuff.

    by data-ottawa
  • Egyptians were clever. They had rivers, water and advanced water-management technology.

    The shaduf, which is a hand-operated lever with a bucket, to lift water from rivers and canals for irrigation.

    The Nile River annually flooded which was monitored because it determined agricultural success.

    As well, the Nile served as a transportation route. Huge stone blocks transported through and evidence suggests that canals and harbours were built near some pyramid complexes to help move materials closer to construction sites.

    https://aeraweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/aeragram15_1-...

    Clever people. Not as advanced as the Romans but they had technology and prospered for a long while.

    by doublerabbit
  • > People dramatically underestimate what thousands of organized humans can accomplish when they are adequately fed, aggressively supervised, and denied alternative career paths.

    Somehow I feel personally attacked.

    by yongjik
  • "I personally can't conceive of how one might built this, and I must be a million times smarter than people 4500 years ago, ergo people didn't build this." is how the Ancient Aliens theory always sounds to me.
    by AdmiralAsshat
  • The classic Mcsweeney's for the HN crowd is "E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone"

    https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-that-wo...

    by chadd

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