The Palace of Versailles?

It looks very impressive on Wikipedia. They suggest that it probably required 6 to 25% of French income to build but this is no doubt referencing government income. The Great Pyramid being built with primitive technology using commonly accepted means might cost close to 25% of GNP!!! Large numbers of men would have been called upon to actually contribute effort to it.

Of course much of the work would have been essentially "wasted" since the workers had no pressing business otherwise during the busy season for building.

The Hoover dam and most modern works are capital projects designed for functional purposes and to return a profit to bond holders and other stakeholders. Indeed, many of the ancient massive projects were apparently intended to serve important functions and pay dividends to the builders. Often these were for military purposes.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2008 01:24AM by cladking.