• JucheBot1988OP
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      Reminds of me of that one Egyptian guy on Aljazeera who claimed that ancient Egypt was socdem and that the pyramids were Keynsian job creation projects

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        I was very surprised to learn that most scholars believe that the pyramids were not built by slaves but by paid laborers.

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          Yep, I think the “slave labor” thing came from Herodotus, who accepted it uncritically from later Egyptian priests who had something of an ax to gring against the old Pharoahs