[drpix]

I've read similar prior claims: That tombs found for high skilled artisans who were free laborers proved that all workers were free. Now they claim that farmers who provided food,for tax exemptions, prove the same.

My question then and now is, how does that prove that the larger group of menial laborers - those who broke their back querying, transporting & lifting the stones - were free laborer?

[allmendream]

From what we know of Egyptian society, there were simply not enough slaves to provide that type of labor force. Slaves were a luxury item for the well to do, and they didn't want their slaves off hauling stones.

The vast majority of the population of Egypt were farmers, and there is an “off” season for farming, when they could be conscripted or compelled or otherwise temporarily “enslaved” to build the Pyramids.

L. Sprague DeCamp in “the Ancient Engineers” talked about how it was most likely to have happened. He also mentions a very salient point about stone age technology and pyramids; without ‘post and lintel’ construction, the only tall imposing building you CAN make is, by necessity, a pyramid.

So much for the ‘cosmic significance’ of pyramids.