>>...For instance, the explanations of how the gigantic pyramids were built with only slave labor are, IMHO, not very credible.
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>Cecil B deMille! The great monuments of Egypt were built not by slaves but by oridinary folk in their spare time, or having been pressed into the job. And in a lot less time than one would think likely. They got paid, fed, watered, bedded and generally looked after. Because of the richness of the Nile valley they had more than one harvest a year and, during the summertime/growing phase (when de livin is easy) there was a vast levy of people to do the work.
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>I've even been to the workers' village, near the Valley of the Kings, that supplied the artisans, craftsmen and labour that dug/built/decorated all the vast underground tombs.
Even with modern technology, it is quite a feat to move blocks of about 5 tons each. And we are not talking about one or two, but many thousands of such blocks.
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