This is What Life Was Like for an Egyptian Worker Building the Pyramids

This is What Life Was Like for an Egyptian Worker Building the Pyramids

Aimee Heidelberg - February 27, 2023

This is What Life Was Like for an Egyptian Worker Building the Pyramids
Egyptian workers. Rob Koopman (2009)

Egypt’s Jewish Slaves Were Later than the Pyramids

There were Jewish slaves in Egypt, but much later than the Giza Pyramid’s construction. Dr. Mazar of the Institute of Archaeology states, “If the Hebrews built anything, then it was the city of Ramses as mentioned in Exodus.” Dr. Hawass says the Wadi al-Jarf papyrus detailing forty workers and their chief indicates that there weren’t slaves in Egypt during the time of the Pyramid’s construction; the last known pyramid, the Pyramid of Ahmose, was constructed in the 18th century, hundreds of years before there is evidence of Israeli people in Egypt. As Dieter Wildung, former Egyptian Museum in Berlin says, “The world simply could not believe the pyramids were built without oppression and forced labor, but out of loyalty to the pharaohs.”

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