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Rebuilding granite blocks around pyramid ‘as absurd as straightening the Tower of Pisa’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you are gonna go that far, just go build a new pyramid instead, and leave the originals intact.

Building a new pyramid replica, to scale nearby, would probably do wonders for tourism. Imagine being able to go into a pyramid, see it as if it was originally thousands of years ago.

Maybe purposefully leave parts partially built with replica equipment sitting out, toyr guides could describe how the tools worked and were used, demo lifting and moving parts. Have some examples of how the various materials were built.

Hire archeologists and artists to recreate hieroglyphs and remake them on the walls, using original recreation pigments so people can see how gorgeous they used to be before colors faded.

Tourists would shit out so much money for such an experience, and just build it a ways away from the originals so people can go do the tour, learn a bunch, them walk over and see the originals and marvel at them now with better understanding of how they would've actually looked back in the day, contextually, but also perhaps some newfound respect for the sheer scale of work it involved.

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I would be one of the people shitting out money for that. Trust sounds absolutely amazing.

[–] tinycarnivoroussheep@possumpat.io 2 points 9 months ago

I am a fan of replicas that I can put my grimy tourist hands all over.