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Old 06-29-2014, 09:12 PM   #206 (permalink)
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I'm not saying you are wrong but when they built the pyraminds they supplied a type of ancient beer (or mead) and bread to the workers...at least the workers didn't starved. And mummies are more likely to be found in the Valley of the Kings than under a pyramid... durp
I mean the money that the pharaohs collected from taxation probably could have gone to feed some hungry people, and I'm sure came from said hungry people, but instead went to building a large, pointy collection of rocks.

And whether the mummies came from the pyramids or not, they're still associated with them. Mummies came from countless parts of the world, but they only became well known in the place where there were the pyramids.

Edit: But my basic point is that Anubis knows how much time, money, and effort went into something that was ultimately completely pointless and has no value other than as a cultural artifact. But even though whatever hardships that it caused for the people who were affected by its building can't be justified merely by the pyramids' coolness, that doesn't diminish it, and I wouldn't give them.
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