This is not true. https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-gre... There are plenty or records about the pyramid constructions, it was also proven that they were built by a paid voluntary workforce rather than slaves like most people believe.

That describes a project receiving pyramid facing stones quarried from white Tufa limestone.

But I doubt there is any indication whether this was for maintenance work, or original construction.

Pharaohs were always embarking on patch-up and upgrade projects on ancient stuff, and tagging everything they touched with their personal cartouches (often having their predecessors' chiseled out, first). So it is very hard to know who really built what, or when. The Sphinx is officially ascribed to a Pharaoh who leaned a stela on it bragging about maintenance work he had ordered (a thing there are also a lot of).

But they never tagged pyramids.

Just cos they were technically paid don't mean they weren't de facto slaves

Some things never change I guess...

Well hey, that's news to me, and utterly fascinating!

Thank-you.

Yeah, that papyrus is bonkers. Imagine what still exists out there in the desert!

We can only hope there's one that details the process of the laying of the stones.

Or the landing of the spacecraft :)

Papyrus describing laying is unlikely unless it somehow related to accounting.

But, do you know the Shabakti stone? That is supposedly a copy of a first dynasty papyrus by the Nubian pharaohs. While likely to be embellished, no reason not to believe. Helps describe the role of Ptah, the god of design.

I appreciate the guts to seriously bring up ancient aliens on hackernews.

I don't support that theory at all, and didn't mention it. I even gave a completely reasonable explanation why they might not want to discuss it.

I'm sorry, I thought

>or they didn't build them.

implied somebody else built the pyramids.

That needn't be aliens. Human culture existed prior to the old kingdom.

Alternately, the records were simply stored in a place that was destroyed or we haven't found yet.

A sibling comment to yours has noted a recently-discovered Papyri that details some scant information about quarrying limestone for Khufu's pyramid.

https://www.history.com/news/egypts-oldest-papyri-detail-gre...

> or they didn't build them.

What are you implying here, exactly? That humans didn't build them at all?

I was suggesting the possibility that they didn't build them. It wouldn't be the only time that a civilization set roots upon the remains of a preceding civilization.

That said, a sibling content to yours provided recently discovered evidence that the quarrying of stone for the pyramids was recorded.

Of some stone. Not necessarily for original construction.

Maybe the pyramids are the records and the instructions…