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Makes sense if you think about it.
Logistics is hard, even more so in ancient times when the only "bulk capacity" freight would be using ships. Unless the Egyptians had developed trains much before anybody else, transporting all the stone to the pyramids would have been difficult. And you'd also have to carry food or other supplies daily.
Plus, if you're going to the trouble of building a great tomb, why wouldn't you want your ex-subjects to see it.
Edit: see correction below
Uh… Do you think it looked like that ~2500 BCE when the pyramids where built? Cairo didn’t even exist at the time.
The closest „city“ was Giza (duh), which is miles away and looked like this around 1800 CE (!)
Of course they had a worker’s village next to the location, but that was it.
People knew how to build canals.
Yeah, that’s why people still haven’t found out exactly how they were able to built these things in the first place.
Edit: ugh, link is broken. 🙄 Scroll down to history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza
Ok yeah, I clearly didn't do any reading at all. Thanks for correcting me.