Prison buggered to December?

Depending on what era of Ancient Egyptian you’re talking about (pyramids went out of style after widespread tombraiding became apparent, and burial went underground in the Valley of the Kings/Queens and other areas) the pyramids tended to be scheduled for completion very early in a pharoahs life. After completion, often they were expanded to be more luxurious, or, sometimes, an even bigger pyramid was built and the smaller one handed off to a relative or particularly important bureaucrat.

Contemporary theory about the building of the pyramids is that they weren’t actually built by slaves, but by off-season agricultural workers (the agricultural work season being built around the tidal seasons of the Nile) alongside a full-time caste of artisans.

I don’t know about going ‘over-budget’ (given that they were first built for god-kings, this is unlikely – although the later eras in which many more notables were getting into elaborate burial could make this highly possible), but it’s unlikely they’d be able to handly them going too far over schedule. The Papyrus of Ani (Book of the Dead) makes it clear that the body has to be interred in the tomb after 39 days; although it can be shifted from tomb to tomb after this initial interment.

Sorry, I’m a total nerd for anything Ancient Egyptian.

I still think the pyramids would have been over schedule and over budget. The world can’t have changed that much in a few thousand years!

p1 said :

This never would have happened in Egypt in the days of the Pharaohs.

Slavery: it gets sh1t done!

Oh, I think that it did!

If only there was some mechanism where by governments actually had employees of their own, who could plan and build things.

This never would have happened in Egypt in the days of the Pharaohs.

wonder how many solictors are now extending clients cases so they dont end up in goulburn

I wouldn’t trust Bovis Lend Lease to build a kennel for my dog. When it comes to accepting responsibility for defects, they take the old and well-trod path of deny, deny, deny…if they exhaust you into giving up, well, there couldn’t have been any substance to your claim, could there?

It’s a shame that major construction projects provide so much flow-on into local economies. Governments all over the world are as hooked on them as they are on tax revenues from legalised gambling, which puts the developers in a position of great power, which they seem to abuse from day one, wringing all sorts of concessions from government and giving as little as possible in return. it’s all $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$