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> The pyramids were also built with slave labour. Last time I read about this subject, historians and egyptologists were still having some disputes about this.
by FoeNyx 10y ago
> The pyramids were also built with slave labour.
Last time I read about this subject, historians and egyptologists were still having some disputes about this.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoYeah they discovered bakeries, breweries, family housing etc at the sites of pyramid construction. Or maybe being a slave was a whole different thing back then...
- mikro2nd 10y agoWell,... slaves still had to eat, drink, make more little slaves (i.e. have families) and so on, so keeping them alive and reasonably well was probably a good thing to do. Dead slaves can't reasonably do all that heavy lifting.
- nradov 10y agoSupposedly the pyramid construction crews had a core of several thousand skilled tradesmen who received salaries, plus a larger group of poor seasonal laborers who worked in lieu of paying taxes. They weren't exactly slaves, but if they didn't have the cash to pay their taxes then they had to work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_techniques#Great_Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_...