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Simon
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USA
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 Posted - 07/01/2009 : 11:29:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by filthy
Do you have a better explanation for the Pyramids? If not the Egyptians, then who? |
Slaves that Egyptians imported from other thier surroundings, like the valley of River Jordan?
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We know from graffiti that the people were small team of free people.
Archaeology also indicate that they were very well fed, probably significantly better than the average population.
At this point, it seems that they had a certain number of year-round workers on the site and use conscription from workers during the farming off-season.
Egypt probably did not have enough slaves to build the pyramids. Especially considering that some of the jobs required very specific training. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Landrew
New Member
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Posted - 07/02/2009 : 16:48:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by filthy
Do you have a better explanation for the Pyramids? If not the Egyptians, then who? |
Slaves that Egyptians imported from other thier surroundings, like the valley of River Jordan?
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We know from graffiti that the people were small team of free people.
Archaeology also indicate that they were very well fed, probably significantly better than the average population.
At this point, it seems that they had a certain number of year-round workers on the site and use conscription from workers during the farming off-season.
Egypt probably did not have enough slaves to build the pyramids. Especially considering that some of the jobs required very specific training.
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I don't think being well-fed disproves that they were slaves. building pyramids is very hard work, and the trick of getting it built before the pharaoh dies probably includes making sure the laborers had the strength to do the job all day long and were well-fed and looked after.
I don't think graffiti is a reliable source to make such generalizations upon.
I also think there's a good chance they were contract laborers of sorts, who could only do the task enthusiastically if they were well-paid and well fed. I'm sure the pharaohs were quite able to afford to pay them well. |
God bless women, for without them there would be no cookies. |
| Edited by - Landrew on 07/02/2009 16:50:36 |
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