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[–] 52 points 3 months ago (8 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (5 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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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

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