I always thought the Great Pyramid was built by a huge slave army

I mean, I saw that in movies and stuff. But I read a study from a dig near Giza that found worker graves with beer and bread offerings. The article said that meant they were paid and respected, not slaves. It was in a journal called 'Archaeology Today' last month. Has anyone else seen new stuff that changes old ideas like that?

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mila_harris1mo ago

Oh wow, that's a great point! It really makes you wonder what other "facts" we learned from pop culture are totally wrong.

reese_nelson1mo ago

No way, that's so cool! I totally had the same idea from those old movies. @mila_harris is right, it's wild how much we just accept from TV. I read something similar about Viking helmets, you know, the ones with the horns? Turns out that was made up for an opera like a hundred years ago, and it just stuck. Makes you question everything they taught us in school for sure. What's the biggest myth you believed for way too long?

averymartin1mo ago

Remember how they always said we only use 10% of our brains? I saw a thing that said that's total nonsense, our whole brain is active all the time. It was probably just from some old movie that people took too seriously.