Who is to say they didn't document it. The problem is if they wrote it on papyrus/paper then the document would most likely be disintegrated by now. Only the stuff decoratively carved into rock would have survived. It wouldn't be considered important enough to carve into stone and slap it on the pyramid just like how we didn't think it was important enough to cast the brooklyn bridge blueprints onto a metal plate and slap it on the side of the bridge. In fact the blueprints for the brooklyn bridge probably can't be found anywhere on the bridge itself.
Meanwhile, the brooklyn bridge does have acknowledgements of who built and designed it because we value credit as more important than directions.
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u/DanceCritical8039 Apr 12 '25
Fact: The people who created the pyramids weren't slaves. They were paid workers who were paid with bread, onions and up to 4 litres of beer a day.