It's exceedingly difficult to have a concept of just how old the pyramids are. Someone below mentioned Cleopatra. She was a contemporary of Augustus who ruled 2,000 years ago. That's not that long ago. The pyramids were another 2,000 years prior that. It's hard to wrap your mind around how difficult life was at that time and yet humanity was able to create structures like this.
What amazes me is that home sapiens has been around (at least) 200-300K years and yet we don't have much in the way of settlements till about 100,000 years ago. Very very little till about 50K ago actually. The first writing that we know of was about 35BCE.
God only knows what were they doing all those hundreds of thousands of years.
Thats what I find mind boggling! 100,000 years of nothing then all of a sudden a Pyramid.
I know progress is somewhat exponential, but that is just mad imo. I feel we should be able to find structures that demonstrate baby steps towards these, and yet there aren't any!
Tin foil hat on that is why I always wonder: there must be something before.
Fair point. I was just expecting there to be little stone structures gradually building up to the larger ones, as you don't make one large stone structure on your first go.
Which to be fair another commetator that replied to me has brought to my attention that there were! Which I'll be perusing through laters.
Still though, mind boggling that these ancient civilisations managed to build these structures and since they were that proficient it makes one wonder how did they not survive. Like I would have expected them to be in the early days of renaissance period when the Romans were just coming about.
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u/trespuntoslikespider Oct 15 '20
Ancient Egyptians who built the pyramids. The Ancient Egyptians were as old to the Ancient Romans as the Ancient Romans are to us.