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Egypt displayed on Monday newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, presenting the discovery as more evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments.
Egypt displayed on Monday newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, presenting the discovery as more evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments.
I think the idea that slaves built the pyramids comes in part because of genesis's comments on Hebrew slaves (although it never says that they built the pyramids, and most of them were built long before the bible suggest Hebrews came to Egypt) and in part because of a general assumption that most heavy work in the ancient world was done by slave labor, at least in the empires.
Well, if it was reported on FOX, then you have to take it with a pyramid-sized grain of salt. (Did slaves mine that salt? I'm not jumping to conclusions!)
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.
When one considers that most slaves in ancient times were war captives or their descendants and that at this stage of Egyptian history they had fought very little outside their own borders this makes sense.
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.
When one considers that most slaves in ancient times were war captives or their descendants and that at this stage of Egyptian history they had fought very little outside their own borders this makes sense.
I read the same. I think I still have the books somewhere. We went to Egypt in the late seventies and our guide told us the same.
Old News. Exodus in the Torah (Five Books of Moses) clearly says the Hebrews built cities. The pyramids are clearly not cities nor even close to the cities that were built.
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.
When one considers that most slaves in ancient times were war captives or their descendants and that at this stage of Egyptian history they had fought very little outside their own borders this makes sense.
Yes, this has been the prevailing theory among Egyptologists for many many years. It was already considered 'mainstream' when I was an undergrad majoring in Egyptian art and archaelogy in the late 1970s - early 1980s.
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