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[–] konju376@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But there were? Just off the top of my head you have Deir al-Medina, which is the village were the workers assigned to the tombs in the valley of kings were assigned to (not exactly the pyramids, but similar enough). We have records of how they complained about bad working conditions and missing supplies, which were usually promptly dealt with because of the importance of the tombs to royal ideology.

Also: what about the texts literally in the pyramids that describe how they were being built and by whom (at least by whom further up in the hierarchy)? It's not like those aren't texts because they're not written in the Latin alphabet. Archaeologists did not, in fact, make up how pyramids/tombs were constructed.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Also, the Mayans most likely had extensive records as well, but we'll never know for certain because the Spanish colonists destroyed everything Indigenous without regard.

Honestly I get angry whenever Western media describes the Mayans or any Indigenous community in the "new world" as "mysterious" or "little is known about them," without the accompanying context of why so little is known about them, as if they're fairies or something. Couldn't be the fact that the colonial powers deliberately tried to erase them right?

[–] goes2eleven@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Couldn’t be the fact that the colonial powers deliberately tried to erase them right?

Cue a new sticker of "We did that!"