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by hfo 1334 days ago
> For what historians claim to be a monument, there's not a single hieroglyphic that I saw.

It's the pyramid of Khufu, 2nd king of the 4th dynasty. None of the pyramids of the 4th dynasty have hieroglyphs. That slowly came into fashion in the 5th (or 6th? Too lazy to check) dynasty. If you measure ancient egypt from the 1st dynasty to Cleopatra, you come up with roughly 3000 years. This pyramid was built around the year 500 on that scale. There is not much writing left at all from that period. The palermo stone being one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo_Stone The most exiting recent find is the diary of Merer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer It seems he was a middle manager in transporting stones to this, Khufus pyramid, which makes his writings the closest you can get to an eye witness account of the construction.