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It's like the theory of "they must have been slaves driven to work by their nobles!" When I believe it turned out they were just blue-collar Ancient Egyptian w
by psunavy03 2y ago
It's like the theory of "they must have been slaves driven to work by their nobles!" When I believe it turned out they were just blue-collar Ancient Egyptian workers with families and paychecks who thought they'd be doing a good thing by honoring the Pharoah.
- jncfhnb 2y agoThey weren’t subhuman slave class. But it’s far from clear they had economic agency.
- Orbital_Armada 2y agoAlthough the laborers working on pyramids and tombs were initially mostly corvee labor, they did evolve into a more specialized and privileged class of artisans over the (very long) course of Egyptian history. The first recorded labor strike in history occurred in a village of such artisans over lack of pay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina_strikes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_el-Medina_strikes