BlindBanshee t1_ixhfhfp wrote on November 23, 2022 at 1:54 PM

Reply to comment by Individual-Gur-7292 in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin

Right on, so we've got one body so far. There are and were quite a few pyramids out there yeah? Lot of them not even in Egypt. Are you suggesting that based on this one body all pyramids MUST be tombs?

Individual-Gur-7292 t1_ixhfnzq wrote on November 23, 2022 at 1:55 PM

I was replying to your impression that no bodies/mummies have ever been found in pyramids.

What do you propose they were instead?

BlindBanshee t1_ixhh0w4 wrote on November 23, 2022 at 2:06 PM

I'm not mad, if you've got other mummies to show please share. I don't think I ever said that the tomb theory wasn't plausible, I just find it interesting that there aren't mummies being discovered in pyramids. Or at least, that's the rumor.

You've informed me of this queen that was discovered and I have no reason to doubt the validity, I've heard of her and her being discovered in the pyramid.

I'll just state again like I did in the beginning, if it's so obvious that ALL of the pyramids are tombs then why are we finding so few bodies? I'm skeptical that every single one was just looted. And there are a lot of pyramids that have nothing to do with the Egyptian pharaohs, are they all tombs too? Every single one? As far as what else they could be I don't know, but I'm curious.

MadRoboticist t1_ixhnn2x wrote on November 23, 2022 at 2:55 PM

Mummies have been found in dozens of pyramids. They are mostly destroyed or partial due to damage during looting. Pyramids are basically giant "Rob me" signs, so it's really not weird that they were almost all looted. There are plenty of Egyptian records noting the pyramids and other tombs had been looted. It was not only pharaohs that built pyramids, other nobles and officials had pyramids and mastabas built as well. It's not like egyptologists just decided that pyramids were tombs one day and that was the end of it. There has been well over a century of research that supports that conclusion.