Open mind Wrote:
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> "they had more than enough bodies"
>
> Just imagine what they could have done if they
> were to have used them to maximum value, instead
> of spending half they're manpower and time on
> unnoticeable symbolic features and unnecessary
> precision.
>
> They might have doubled the height.
>
> Being a stinky footed superstitious bumpkin is
> definitely not without its costs.

Indeed!!!

If the king were really a god as everyone now days seems to believe then why wouldn't he want the biggest pyramid possible. Can you imagine the wrath taken out on the architect when the king discovered he was sandbagging and wasting most of the effort? The king would be furious and condemn him to a life of dragging stones on ramps all by himself since everyone else would be put to the task of pulling stones straight up the sides.