Builders of the Great Pyramids of Giza
Egyptologists point to evidence that slaves did not, in fact, build the Giza Pyramids; the builders were paid laborers. These laborers would include farmers looking for off-season work and others seeing a steady pay. Archaeologists have found the administrative documents that tracked workers food and housing, and these documents have shown the decent conditions workers experienced. They have found tombs at the foot of the Great Pyramid filled with skeletons of the workers. Their skeletons had jars holding beer and bread to prepare them for the afterlife buried with them, an honor unlikely to have been offered for slaves.