On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:46:27 -0400, George George@least wrote:

Except, of course, the pyramids were _not_ built by slave labor,

Did the people building them know that? We don't even know what the
mechanism was for moving the blocks, and you claim we know the
motivation?

rather by
those who viewed them as others today view a cathedral - as a suitable place
for God. That's what the Pharaoh was, after all.
http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/070391.html

I don't see how a slave to a king-god is any different than a slave to a
dictator or whatever.