Is it possible that during that time period...the economy really just need them to, as Lewis Black said, build "a great big fucking thing!"? In this case, several big fucking things. And then they moved on? [shrugs] if they weren't just tombs, then perhaps they were the equivalent of Arlington Cemetary, which is both a tomb and a park with its own monuments, built according to our symbolism and aesthetics?
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