Anonymous
Posted on 2020-09-26 14:40:12 Score: 0 (vote Up/Down)    (Report as spam)
This is historically inaccurate, as at least most of the workers who built the pyramids were skilled workers who got pretty decent treatment, who besides pay got access to quality food and were buried rather honorably.

"Amihai Mazar, professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, says that myth stemmed from an erroneous claim by the former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, on a visit to Egypt in 1977, that Jews built the pyramids.

"No Jews built the pyramids because Jews didn't exist at the period when the pyramids were built," Mazar said.

Dorothy Resig, an editor of Biblical Archaeology Review in Washington DC, said the idea probably arose from the Old Testament Book of Exodus, which says: "So the Egyptians enslaved the children of Israel with backbreaking labour" and the Pharaoh put them to work to build buildings.

"If the Hebrews built anything, then it was the city of Ramses as mentioned in Exodus," said Mazar."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt

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