Were the Pyramids Built by Slaves? 🏗️ #shorts

Movies love whips and chains — but archaeologists at Giza found a whole town for the pyramid workers: bakeries, meat, named crews like "Friends of Khufu", and workers' tombs right next to the pyramids. Most builders were probably Egyptian workers in rotating crews, many owing the king labour like a tax paid in work.

Sources:
- Harvard Magazine (2003), "Who Built the Pyramids?" (Mark Lehner)
- Christian Science Monitor (11 Jan 2010), Zahi Hawass on the workers' tombs
- Ahram Online, Giza workers' cemetery

#history #ancientegypt #pyramids