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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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That's both super unsurprising and super disappointing. Of COURSE they're right next to civilization. I don't know why I somehow bought the idea they'd be way out in the desert.🤦♂️
I don’t understand why people think it looked like that 4000y ago…
The closest settlement, Giza, looked like this in 1800 CE (!): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Description_de_l%27Egypte_-_Etat_Moderne_-_Pl_16.jpg
You can look on a map how far it is to the pyramids from there…
Edit: ugh, link is broken. 🙄 Scroll down to history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza