Is this how an Organization built? October 11, 2007

No fewer that 70,000 workers would have been needed to lug limestone blocks from desert miles away to the building sites of the pyramids. Yet, there is little evidence that the pharaohs had to coerce their subject to leave their fields and families in order to build a monument whose completion any single worker would certainly never see. All people apparently willingly participated in the pageant of immortality-made-real. With no hope of berth for themselves in the tomb, the workers nonetheless must have taken comfort from knowing that their king, their earthly representative, would live on for them in perpetuity. Here was a culture that would persist, just as its pharaohs would live on in their silent places.