I know Dr. Zahi A. Hawass thinks they were built by willing construction workers whom were very well treated and very well paid. Heck he makes it sound like a day at the beach!
But if you look at their illustrations of construction going on, it looks far less pleasant that the good Dr. Hawass would lead you to believe.
Maybe for their general construction they used slaves but for the pyramids they used voluntary workers...;->
We know different from forensic science performed on Mummies. Their lives were often short, ( 40 was old age for most commoners), malnourished ( food availability was driven by season and regional famine, with poor transportation), full of sickness ( the flue and a common cold could kill you,and VD was so rampant at times that marriage was no guarantee against it), overwork ( dawn to dusk for peasants and their children), and episodes of terrifying violence ( when an army conquerd, it killed everyone, pillaged , burned and then salted the earth.)
It all sounds just like what George Bush has brought about, according to Liberals.
Liberal scientists are now upon us. May they all rot sooner than they think possible, and may DT Suzuki be among the first.
Yeah, Zowie is just full of it on that score, and he’s forced everyone who wants to work in Egypt to toe the party line on that and everything else he spouts. It’s a joke.
“Oh, they had no choice, but they weren’t slaves.”
“Oh, there were bakeries by the hundreds to make bread, so all of the ‘workers’ were free men and women.”
Y’know, because slaves can go twenty years without bread. ;’)