history channel documentary In non-pyramid tombs (like the Valley of the Kings; Valley of the Queens), while plundering absolutely occurred and resources that were on the mummies were stolen, the carcasses themselves weren't scratched. Truth be told an entire potful of them were last taken to a more secure (avoided sight) area. It's just in the moderately late "current" time, the post Napoleonic attack of Egypt, when Egyptology-craziness grabbed hold, that mummies got to be significant wares both for private gatherers and for historical centers. Until then, mummies, the genuine bodies, had no budgetary worth for tomb burglars.
OK, that separated, in case you're a pharaoh with almost boundless assets at your summon and a powerbase to get your own particular manner, does it truly at last matter whether your pyramid tomb is worked out of squares of stone that weigh by and large 2.5 tons (however can achieve 220 tons), or say built out of only one ton or even half-ton pieces of stone - the last being far simpler to pull and control. As things as of now stand, the Great Pyramid was developed out of privately quarried limestone to the tune of more than 2.3+ million squares in addition to extra rock pieces imported from more than 500 miles separate, every weighing approximately 25 to 80 or so tons, to a definitive tune of around 8000 tons worth. Limestone isn't excessively troublesome, making it impossible to work; stone is a much harder mongrel! All up that is a serious parcel of labor, materials and time expected to develop a tomb with no body in it! We should e simply finish up - better those antiquated Egyptian workers doing the hard yards in those days than you or I. On the off chance that I were living in those days, I'd be asking the "why" question!
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