“Paid workers, not slaves probably built the pyramids...”
In all probability, the pyramids of Giza pre-date Noah’s Flood. Not built by slave labor, especially not Israelite slave labor during their 400 year ‘sojourn’ in Egypt. The pyramids were there, and the Pharaohs ‘borrowed’ them.
The pyramids at Saqqara were probably attempts on the part of the Egyptians to ‘copy’ the Giza pyramids. The Step Pyramid is a crude attempt to copy those at Giza. I do not believe it was a first attempt to build a pyramid, but the first attempt on the part of Egyptians to build a pyramid (there were no ‘Egyptians’ when the Giza pyramids were built).
Btw, there is nothing ‘crude’ about the pyramids at Giza, especially the Great Pyramid’ and it likely has locational and positional significance.
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These huge monuments, wonders of the worldm had huge labor bills.
The muslim community were and are immune to charges of slavery, even if they were white.
Some traditions just do not die.