On 28 Jul 2005 19:35:02 -0700, wrote:


Dave Hinz wrote:
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.

Evidence from the worker's city and worker's burial site provides
insight into who the workers were. In particular, it appears that
the food was provided by a large number of independant vendors
suggesting that the workers were paid a wage.

It's been ages, but some time ago, I read that the Egyptians did not trust
slaves to build the pyramids, but that they used slaves for their mundane
projects in order to free the Egyptians to do the pyramid projects.




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