[Cronos]

I don’t believe they were slaves — it took 20 years to build the grand pyramid of Khufu and this suggests that it was more during the Niles flooding season when farmers had free time, when they were involved in this national building. The population of ancient Egypt c. 2200 BC wouldn’t have had enough to sustain a large population of slaves. Also, these weren’t Hebrew or Semitic — they would come later during the time of the Hyksos

[allmost]

Egypt was a society filled with slaves. I've heard the attempts at rewriting history, paid for by the Egyptian government, by Hawass. To say they weren't utilized sounds a bit ludicrous.