OK, I found a link to this ad for Blackberries off the Phillies website.
Ad for Blackberry
It's cute, and has a historical theme. But what I find interesting is how the ad plays off the expectation of ignorance on the part of the viewer. Although recent evidence suggests that skilled craftsmen were more common than slaves on the pyramid construction sites, it's a little glaring to overlook them (imagine an ad campaign set int he antebellum south without reference to slavery). And nowhere does it suggest that the pyramids were tombs. (There's even a moment where the Pharoah synchs his calendar with that of the foreman: "The boss is coming tomorrow! Get those last stones in place." My response was "Wow, those pharoahs must have been organized to schedule their own deaths like that.").
Of course, my main reaction to the premise ("What if the ancient Egyptians had Blackberries?") is not "Gosh, they would have been able to build a lot more," but "Wow, I bet they would have wasted a lot of time on Facebook."
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