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Plop-Music t1_ixfb1ip wrote

Reply to comment by BlindBanshee in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin

sarcophagi were though

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BlindBanshee t1_ixfnivl wrote

It's possible that what they found in Khufu's pyramid was a sarcophagus, but considering bodies have never been found I'm inclined to believe that pyramids had a different purpose.

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MadRoboticist t1_ixfv70f wrote

Then you would be at odds with basically every Egyptologist. The pyramids weren't just stand-alone constructions. There is a full complex of buildings including mortuary temples and other buildings associated with funerary rites.

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BlindBanshee t1_ixg0847 wrote

I never claimed to be an expert, but it seems weird that we're not finding mummies in pyramids if that was the whole purpose for their existence.

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jongeheer t1_ixh0tz1 wrote

ITT: a 21th century internet user that finds it odd that 'we' haven't found any precious item in a structure that is 5000 years old.

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vulgarchaitanya t1_ixgbgd5 wrote

Not an expert, but what if the reason we are not finding mummies is that they have either ascended heaven or someone is making a mummy army in secret to rule over the world?

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Plop-Music t1_ixhm4fs wrote

It's not weird in the slightest. Mummified bodies in Egypt and elsewhere have been stolen out of their tombs for millenia. Because people would pay a lot of money for them. That's what's believed to have happened here. The British weren't the first people to do that, it predates the existence of the UK. But some of the sarcophagi that were left behind were too big to steal, they couldn't get them out of the pyramids. Which indicates that they were there first, long before the roof was finished, which seems to point to the fact they were important and necessary to be inside the pyramid, maybe the main reason for the pyramid's existence in the first place.

The reason there were little to no hieroglyphs on the walls is because that's a practice that didn't start until the next age centuries later.

But as others have said, the pyramid's of giza are basically a big graveyard, there's tons and tons and tons of tombs and mastabas surrounding them, which were used to bury people. And those weren't the tombs of lowly workers who died making it, you had a to have a good deal of money at the time to have one, especially on a site that was so important.

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