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Originally Posted by Irishtom29
This is old news, I was reading 35 years ago that the pyramids were built by free labor; by Egyptians drafted during the flood season to provide bulk labor and by steady, year round crews of well paid skilled workers.
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Indeed. Even Hollywood knew it.
In the 1955 movie "Land of the Pharaohs" we are told that the workers came because they were "inspired by their faith". Admittedly, they bow to the more conventional picture by saying later that enthusiasm flagged and the overseer's whip was needed to keep the work going. But obviously the fre labour theory was well enough known to have reached the producers.
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