Ancient Egyptians may have used branding irons on human slaves

Live Science ^ | last updated 9 days ago | Tom Metcalfe

[trebb]

I can say it in two words, “Reparations on the way”...🤓

[Dan in Wichita]

Wait a minute here...

We've been told slavery was invented in America in 1619. Is this article suggesting slavery existed in the world long before there was an America? Who knew?

[Red Badger]

[4yearlurker]

There was a movie and a old TV shoe called “Branded.”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

When I read this Chuck Conners is the first thing I thought of. Wonder how many remember that movie.

[Deaf Smith]

>>first thing I thought of

First thing was specific NFL players with the omega brand.

[BenLurkin]

What would be an example of an inhuman slave?

[SunkenCiv]

Probably written by a vegetarian devotee of The Agenda Driven Life.

[consult]

This article corrects the attempts in the past decades to re-write Egyptian history claims that all the workers on the pyramids etc were some kind seasonal collective of pheasants voluntarily helping for the greater good of the country.

[SunkenCiv]

My favorite is, “they were just paying their taxes”.

[central_va]

Worst words spoken in anciant Egypt, “Ok. Drop ‘em”

[consult]

“they were just paying their taxes”....exactly!!

Here is a modern history text that we teach our kids with

“”The pyramids were built by farmers during the season when the Nile flooded their fields, so there was no farm work....Unlike slaves, who might be forced to work for someone else for their entire lives, conscripted farmers worked on a pyramid for a set time, then returned to their farms. “”

https://lsintspl3.wgbh.org/en-us/lesson/midlit11-soc-splegypt/5?as_guest=True#:~:text=The%20pyramids%20were%20built%20by,charge%20of%20the%20pyramid%20project.