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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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[–] Robomekk@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago (7 children)

From what I understand the polished limestone is accurate for many pyramids, but the gold pyramidion seems to be more of an edge case on some smaller pyramids.

A gold top wouldn’t even be visible from the ground on a large polished white pyramid.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (4 children)

A gold top wouldn’t even be visible from the ground on a large polished white pyramid.

The point of pyramids was of religious nature, it was to be closer to the sky and allow dead pharaohs to go in their version of the after life so it's likely that the gold wasn't to be pretty but for a religious something

Also, i wonder if it was a gold alloy and not pure gold

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

Why not both?

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