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Starving Tomb Builders Went on Strike Against a Pharaoh

The workers building a pharaoh's tomb were paid in bread and beer. When the rations were 18 days late, they dropped their tools and sat down in protest.
This is a funny stickman retelling of one of the earliest known workers' strikes in history. It happened around 1157 BCE under Ramesses III, and the tomb builders of Deir el-Medina in Egypt were the ones who stopped work. A papyrus now kept in Turin, Italy, records what happened. The grain eventually arrived, but the trouble returned later. The scenes in this video are an animated reconstruction.
Would you have walked out too? Tell us in the comments.
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