• ButtigiegMineralMap
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    1 year ago

    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