interestingasfuck

its amazing how we look at historical constructions and assume thats always how it looked.

You are right, The Pyramids used to be shining white beacons of marble, but the stone was.. "repurposed" for building after the end of the pharos.

Medieval castles too, all anyone sees today are grey, bare rock, dingy, cold, drafty castles.. But when they were new? before photographs and film? They were plastered white, and filled with rugs and tapestries that made them beautiful, stunning, and warm.

Thanks for the additional insight!

I weirdly agree.

Similarly, I would like to see the Coliseum rebuilt and used as a football stadium.

It would certainly shift focus from all the plastic bags blowing around it in the wind

I would object because of the bureaucracy. It would cost less to make a new one. Then you could do both. And in 5000 years we might get new alien conspiracies about why we have two sets of pyramids in two different time periods.

I remember the signs there and museum did tell that the great pyramids also had golden Pyramidions.

If it was capped in gold, dusk and dawn could have been very pretty.

A gold top wouldn’t even be visible from the ground on a large polished white pyramid.

The point of pyramids was of religious nature, it was to be closer to the sky and allow dead pharaohs to go in their version of the after life so it's likely that the gold wasn't to be pretty but for a religious something

Also, i wonder if it was a gold alloy and not pure gold

Humans own 23³m³ of gold total

I didn't know they had such nice cameras either. Really ahead of their time those caironians.

The pizza hut across the street was probably fire back then

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Should have bought the extended warranty.

I think they just wanted to build a giant titty.

Feels quite secondary to the "I have the biggest" contest that we saw later with cathedrals and now skyscrapers.

Menkaure's pyramid may have been painted red.

It's the newest and smallest of the three pyramids of the Giza necropolis. Where Khufu and Khafre's pyramids were cased top to bottom in polished white limestone, Menkaure's pyramid is cased several courses up in red granite, then the top 2/3 of the pyramid's height in limestone. I've seen a theory put forward that the upper limestone was painted red to stand out among the larger megaliths.

Kind of reminds me of Pete Conrad, commander of Apollo 12. The Johnson Space Center in Houston has a grove of trees grown from seeds flown in space, each is planted for an astronaut who passed away. During the Christmas season they're lit with white lights...except for the tree planted in Conrad's honor, which is lit with red lights to honor his motto "If you can't be good, be colorful."