We can celebrate the pyramids for their engineering expertise, and the fact that the construction process generated major developments in mathematics, physics and astronomy. Mathematical tables were composed to simplify the construction and new geometrical and mathematical truths as well as tools were created in the process. Mechanics would be taken to a new level.Some scholars believe that the pyramids were constructed in alignment with certain constellations, and some argue that they may have even served as observatories.
The structures also continue to invite useful questions, for the intellectually curious, about the methods used for the transportation and manipulation of raw material, quarrying etc. .
The construction of latrines and showers, houses for workers, obelisks and stelae, temples and dams, irrigation channels and sphinxes as well as boat design and navigability - are among the various issues that concern the historian of indigenous science and technology . The era of pyramid construction in the Egyptian case is between 2600 BC and 1500 BC, approximately, so this is the work of a lifetime.
In the case of Nubia, pyramid construction became relatively democratized and not exclusively confined to the ruling elite. This probably explains the proliferation of pyramids in Nubia to They found some new ones in 2013. This phenomenon, too, also has to be examined by scholars, along with construction techniques and the overall modus operandi and context.
Labor history is a legitimate aspect of historical research and so, too, the history of science, technology and indigenous knowledges.They do intersect as well, and a judicious, mature application of the historian's skills and expertise should obviously come into play, in each case.
GE
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