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Many of us are familiar with the modern legends surrounding the Egyptian Pyramids, particularly that of Khufu, known as the Great Pyramid and one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. However, many of the legends and even information that is still sometimes reported as factual comes from more ancient legends.
Indeed from the writings of the famous Greek historian, Herodotus, we find a mixture of fact and folktale about the pyramids that live on today. He came to Egypt between 449 and 430 BC, when the hieroglyphic script was still read and pharaonic religion was still practiced, but still this was several thousand years after the construction of Khufu's temple. According to Herodotus, he was told by the priests, concerning Khufu, that:
"[he] brought the country into all sorts of misery. He closed all the temple, then, not content with excluding his subjects from the practice of their religion, compelled them without exception to labor as slaves for his own advantage"
Khufu's reputation was already tarnished by the legends of the Westcar Papyrus, probably dating from the Second Intermediate period, but copied from an older document, but it was Herodotus who established the erroneous and now virtually ineradicable association between pyramid building and slave labor. Herodotus' credibility must be strained when he goes on to report that:
"no crime was too great for Cheops: when he was short of money, he sent his daughter to a bawdy-house with instructions to charge a certain sum - they did not tell me how much. This she actually did, adding to it a further transaction of her own; for with the intention of leaving something to be remembered after her death, she asked each of her customers to giver her a block of stone, and of these stones [the story goes] was built the middle pyramid of the three which stand in front of the Great Pyramid."
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Indeed from the writings of the famous Greek historian, Herodotus, we find a mixture of fact and folktale about the pyramids that live on today. He came to Egypt between 449 and 430 BC, when the hieroglyphic script was still read and pharaonic religion was still practiced, but still this was several thousand years after the construction of Khufu's temple. According to Herodotus, he was told by the priests, concerning Khufu, that:
"[he] brought the country into all sorts of misery. He closed all the temple, then, not content with excluding his subjects from the practice of their religion, compelled them without exception to labor as slaves for his own advantage"
Khufu's reputation was already tarnished by the legends of the Westcar Papyrus, probably dating from the Second Intermediate period, but copied from an older document, but it was Herodotus who established the erroneous and now virtually ineradicable association between pyramid building and slave labor. Herodotus' credibility must be strained when he goes on to report that:
"no crime was too great for Cheops: when he was short of money, he sent his daughter to a bawdy-house with instructions to charge a certain sum - they did not tell me how much. This she actually did, adding to it a further transaction of her own; for with the intention of leaving something to be remembered after her death, she asked each of her customers to giver her a block of stone, and of these stones [the story goes] was built the middle pyramid of the three which stand in front of the Great Pyramid."
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》》Many of us are familiar with the modern legends surrounding the Egyptian Pyramids , particularly that of Khufu, known as the Great Pyramid and one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. However, many of the legends and even information that is still sometimes reported as factual comes from more ancient legends .
》》Khufu's reputation was already tarnished by the legends of the Westcar Papyrus, probably dating from the Second Intermediate period but copied from an older document ,it was Herodotuswho established the erroneous and now virtually ineradicable association between pyramid building and slave labour.
》》 Herodotus' credibility must be strained when he goes on to report that - no crime was too great for Cheops: when he was short of money, he sent his daughter to a bawdy-house with instructions to charge a certain sum - they did not tell me how much .
》》 This she actually did, adding to it a further transaction of her own; for with the intention of leaving something to be remembered after her death, she asked each of her customers to giver her a block of stone, and of these stones was built the middle pyramid of the three which stand in front of the Great Pyramid .
hope it helps u dear ^_^
》》Many of us are familiar with the modern legends surrounding the Egyptian Pyramids , particularly that of Khufu, known as the Great Pyramid and one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. However, many of the legends and even information that is still sometimes reported as factual comes from more ancient legends .
》》Khufu's reputation was already tarnished by the legends of the Westcar Papyrus, probably dating from the Second Intermediate period but copied from an older document ,it was Herodotuswho established the erroneous and now virtually ineradicable association between pyramid building and slave labour.
》》 Herodotus' credibility must be strained when he goes on to report that - no crime was too great for Cheops: when he was short of money, he sent his daughter to a bawdy-house with instructions to charge a certain sum - they did not tell me how much .
》》 This she actually did, adding to it a further transaction of her own; for with the intention of leaving something to be remembered after her death, she asked each of her customers to giver her a block of stone, and of these stones was built the middle pyramid of the three which stand in front of the Great Pyramid .
hope it helps u dear ^_^
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