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This is what the pyramids used to look like. They were covered with polished white limestone and had a peak made of pure gold. (lemmy.nz)

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If it was for religious reasons they would definitely use pure gold

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Just looked on wikipedia and they say

"... and were sometimes covered with plates of copper, gold or electrum." (electrum is an alloy of gold and silver IIRC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidion Which makes a lot of sense, gold was and is very expensive

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

"Plates of" especially makes sense. And you do recall correctly, electrum is a natural alloy, which means they wouldn't have had to create it from scratch.