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