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minus-squareButtigiegMineralMaplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI was very surprised to learn that most scholars believe that the pyramids were not built by slaves but by paid laborers.
minus-squareJucheBot1988OPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYep, 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
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