Since longtime, I see the pharaohs as despots with anger faces and whipping slaves in field where building the pyramids and here we got concept that have seen via Hollywood movies which showed the myths about massive numbers of slaves or Jews building the great pyramids.
In fact we have two views in need to discuss. Were they slaves? ... Were they Jews slaves? ...
The answer for the first prospect is No they were not slaves. Egypt’s chief archaeologist argues. He said Egyptian researchers have found the tombs of more pyramid builders, and in those tombs more evidence that free men erected these monumental tributes to the ancient pharaohs.
“These tombs were built beside the king’s pyramid, which indicates that these people were not by any means slaves…If they were slaves, they would not have been able to build their tombs beside their king’s.” said Dr Zahi Hawass.
There is also evidence that the builders ate a luxurious diet of meat, not the sort of thing slaves would have been fed. Records show that each day 21 buffalo and 23 sheep were sent to the plateau to feed the workers.
Knowledge of the tombs belonging to the builders of the pyramids is not new. Mark Lehner worked for many years at Giza to uncover the tombs of the workers and has documented these tombs in detail.
For the past decade the Giza Mapping Project has been focused on the ‘Lost City’ of the pyramid builders at Giza. The project uncovered evidence indicating that the pyramids were built by skilled workers and not by slaves as suggested by popular Hollywood movies.
From these facts we conclude the following:
-Builders of the pyramids were well paid free men
-Builders of the pyramids they had health care and housing near the construction site
-Inscriptions on the walls of the tombs indicate that they enjoy high spirit in the creation of a national project for the Egyptians.
The answer for the second prospect is No they were not Jews. As it is wide known the pyramids built under the rule of the 4th dynasty of Egypt [2613-2465BCE]. And this does not coincide with the entry of the first person related to the twelve tribes Joseph the son of Jacob to Egypt, while at that time Egypt ruled by the Hyksos's occupation, which was in the period from the 13th to the 17th dynasty which is about 600 years after the pyramids were built.
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In fact, one of the biggest gains from the idea of building the pyramids at the time was to create a job chances to the Egyptians*, whom were suffering unemployment and lack of livelihood in the Nile flood season, which was filling farmland with water.
*farming was the main occupation for the Egyptians
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