The Great Pyramids probably not built by slaves

[Maimonides]

I dunno whether this is old news or not. Oh well.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100110/sc_nm/us_egypt_antiquities_tombs

What implications could this have?

They might have to rewrite that "The Ten Commandments" movie.

As many others have said, this is old news.

I haven't seen that movie in many years. Does it really depict the Hebrews building pyramids?

Besides what MagisterCultuum said, the pyramids were many centuries old at the time of Exodus. The ancient Egyptians get all the credit for building those.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

As many others have said, this is old news.

So, close this thread then?

 

[bigdog5994]

yea i knew for quite a long time that Ancient Egypt conscripted workers

 

[amadeus]

Egypt's just trying to get out of paying reparations.

 

[Agent327]

I dunno whether this is old news or not.

Very old news. No indications have been found slaves were employed in the building of pyramids, on the contrary. (What The Ten Commandments have got to do with anything, puzzles me frankly, as the first pyramids had been built centuries earlier, as mentioned by MagisterCultuum. As I've mentioned elsewhere, the whole Exodus story is a bit puzzling: 40,000 people roving around the Sinai desert for 40 years? Living on what? Also, there are no Egyptian records of such a huge Hebrew expulsion from the Nile delta nor of such numbers of "slaves" leaving.)

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

As I've mentioned elsewhere, the whole Exodus story is a bit puzzling: 40,000 people roving around the Sinai desert for 40 years? Living on what?

Manna, quail, and water from rocks.

 

[Traitorfish]

If the workers had enough money to buy their own tombs, they must have had labor unions.

Not an entirely absurd suggestion, as it happens. Skilled artisans are known to have enganged in a very early form of industrial action.

 

[Munch]

They weren't slaves, it was a pyramid scheme.

 

[warpus]

Ah well, at least slaves can still claim credit to building the Burj Dubai.

 

[civ_king]

They weren't slaves, it was a pyramid scheme.

Ah well, at least slaves can still claim credit to building the Burj Dubai.

RASIST!

to those who say that the Jews weren't slaves

u teh b 2 rasist 2 liv n musd be shankd!

 

[say1988]

What The Ten Commandments have got to do with anything, puzzles me frankly, as the first pyramids had been built centuries earlier, as mentioned by MagisterCultuum

But I believe it was int eh famous movie and many other examples from the media.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Yes, and we all know Hollywood is the ultimate arbiter of truth, not historians, archeologists, the bible itself, or common sense.

 

[say1988]

Unfortunately, as far as a lot of people are concerned, that is a fact.

 

[Fëanor]

Considering that many believed that their ruler was the incarnation of (a) god it seems pretty plausible that many would dedicate their lives to serve them.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

As many others have said, this is old news.

I haven't seen that movie in many years. Does it really depict the Hebrews building pyramids?

Besides what MagisterCultuum said, the pyramids were many centuries old at the time of Exodus. The ancient Egyptians get all the credit for building those.

No. In the movie the Hebrews were put to work building a city to celebrate "Seti's Jubilee."

Very old news. No indications have been found slaves were employed in the building of pyramids, on the contrary. (What The Ten Commandments have got to do with anything, puzzles me frankly, as the first pyramids had been built centuries earlier, as mentioned by MagisterCultuum. As I've mentioned elsewhere, the whole Exodus story is a bit puzzling: 40,000 people roving around the Sinai desert for 40 years? Living on what? Also, there are no Egyptian records of such a huge Hebrew expulsion from the Nile delta nor of such numbers of "slaves" leaving.)

That's because Moses wouldn't stop to ask for directions...

 

[Lillefix]

As I've mentioned elsewhere, the whole Exodus story is a bit puzzling: 40,000 people roving around the Sinai desert for 40 years? Living on what?

Let Stephen Fry teach you:


Link to video.