Thanks for the additional insight!

its amazing how we look at historical constructions and assume thats always how it looked.

You are right, The Pyramids used to be shining white beacons of marble, but the stone was.. "repurposed" for building after the end of the pharos.

Medieval castles too, all anyone sees today are grey, bare rock, dingy, cold, drafty castles.. But when they were new? before photographs and film? They were plastered white, and filled with rugs and tapestries that made them beautiful, stunning, and warm.

I see, another wirtual viewer /s

I weirdly agree.

Similarly, I would like to see the Coliseum rebuilt and used as a football stadium.

It would certainly shift focus from all the plastic bags blowing around it in the wind

I would object because of the bureaucracy. It would cost less to make a new one. Then you could do both. And in 5000 years we might get new alien conspiracies about why we have two sets of pyramids in two different time periods.

I remember the signs there and museum did tell that the great pyramids also had golden Pyramidions.

If it was capped in gold, dusk and dawn could have been very pretty.

A gold top wouldn’t even be visible from the ground on a large polished white pyramid.

The point of pyramids was of religious nature, it was to be closer to the sky and allow dead pharaohs to go in their version of the after life so it's likely that the gold wasn't to be pretty but for a religious something

Also, i wonder if it was a gold alloy and not pure gold

It looks like gold though

Humans own 23³m³ of gold total

The pizza hut across the street was probably fire back then

I didn't know they had such nice cameras either. Really ahead of their time those caironians.

This gave me a much needed giggle. Thanks!

pls fix thx

Should have bought the extended warranty.

I think they just wanted to build a giant titty.

Feels quite secondary to the "I have the biggest" contest that we saw later with cathedrals and now skyscrapers.

I think one of the purposes of the pyramids was to be a sort of ancient beacon.

Aliens needed to know where to land.

Menkaure's pyramid may have been painted red.

It's the newest and smallest of the three pyramids of the Giza necropolis. Where Khufu and Khafre's pyramids were cased top to bottom in polished white limestone, Menkaure's pyramid is cased several courses up in red granite, then the top 2/3 of the pyramid's height in limestone. I've seen a theory put forward that the upper limestone was painted red to stand out among the larger megaliths.

Kind of reminds me of Pete Conrad, commander of Apollo 12. The Johnson Space Center in Houston has a grove of trees grown from seeds flown in space, each is planted for an astronaut who passed away. During the Christmas season they're lit with white lights...except for the tree planted in Conrad's honor, which is lit with red lights to honor his motto "If you can't be good, be colorful."

I'm pretty sure, with all the pyramids there are, there'd be some evidence or residue if this were the case. It'd also be an absolute shitload of paint. There would probably be archeological evidence for massive paint making in the region. They did paint stones, but I don't think they painted the outside of the pyramids.

Classical statues too

No but shockingly close. The pyramids were built starting around 2630 BCE. But the African Humid Period ended about 5000-6000 years ago, so about 2974 BCE on the near end.

About 350 years is shockingly close. That's about the length of the Ptolmaic dynasty. That's Isaac Newton being active to today. Not recent by any means, but that's "we still know about this" time scales

It cost too much to maintain a nice one, so they tore it down and replaced it with a cheaper one from IKEA BCE.

So one thing that happens in history is, people stop paying to maintain things or governments don't care anymore, so people start taking them apart and using it for building materials.

Let's say you're a modern day contractor, and need $10,000 worth of brick... or you could go and uh just take some from that old library that no one uses anymore, except some homeless dudes camp in it. You could take down maybe just like one small part of it and not spend ANYTHING on brick. Other contractors are already doing this... No one will care.

Basically what happened to the library of alexandria if I remember correctly. It was less fire and more just hundreds of years of people stopping caring.

They didn't replace it They removed it. What you're seeing is underneath.

The Gods became weaker, they couldn't prevent the degradation.

"Ancient Astronaut theorists say yes."

its the most compelling one ive heard so far

You mean if you ignore all the hieroglyphs that explain everything in great detail?

The red Pyramid, maybe. But the Great Pyramid is gigantic with a relatively tiny tomb (compared to rest of pyramid) that contained a burial chamber that was blocked off with one way giant blocks that sealed off the chamber permanently.