Egyptian archaeologists have made a startling discovery. A series of tombs, over 4000 years old, are believed to be the burial site for workers who died during the building of the Great Pyramids at Giza. The interesting fact of the matter is that these tombs, in the shadows of the pyramids themselves, reveal that the workers who built and died during the making of these monuments weren’t slaves, as the popular myth suggests. These were, in fact, paid workers, whose sacrifice in the process of building the pyramids netted them an honorable burial alongside their greatest leaders.
Among the staggering facts uncovered by the discovery is the amount of manpower it took to build the pyramids. Experts guess that the pyramids were built by 10,000 paid laborers, who worked in three-month tours of duty. Every day the men consumed 23 sheep and 21 cows that were delivered to the site and, presumably, cooked there on location. These men were believed to be Ancient Egypt’s version of the middle class, given how they were buried and the type of tomb they were buried in.
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