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DiddleMeTimbers 5 points ago +7 / -2

The Pyramids were not built by slaves. http://archive.is/kUQUR

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broodwitch 8 points ago +9 / -1

You sound so certain. They found some skeletons and made the claim that the Egyptians would not bury the slaves in the fashion that these skeletons were buried. Because of the proximity to the pyramids and the toil these skeletons show, these "workers" must have been the ones to build the pyramids. Therefore slaves didn't build the pyramids. Its a spurious arguement. It doesn't account for the possibility of some workers and some slaves, or whether some slaves were treated better than others, or whether these "workers" could of had labor intensive jobs that weren't the pyramids, or any number of possibilities.

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Fartgate 6 points ago +6 / -0

That argument has such logic. If most things like the pyramids were built by slaves, then you need damn solid evidence to claim that the pyramids were not also built by slaves. I think historians have fallen in love with their work on the pyramids, and believing that they were not built by slaves makes them feel better about themselves, their work, and the pyramids.

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Scroon 4 points ago +6 / -2

Yeah, "coincidentally" the slave-built pyramid theory reads like a leftist talking point wet dream. A huge (allegedly useless) monument to excess built off the backs of a noble enslaved majority...who also happened to be Jewish.

God forbid that the pyramids were voluntarily built by an extremely successful civilization who perhaps valued spirituality enough to create timeless monuments in service to their gods and religion.

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HazelHen 3 points ago +3 / -0

Look up the genetics of ancient Egyptians (archeogenetics). Modern Western European people are the most closely related people.

Some ancient Egyptians were natural red-haired and blonde. Same with some ancient civilizations in Middle East (Sumerian, Babylonian).

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Noxapalooza 2 points ago +2 / -0

OR... the pyramids have a different purpose and that's why every continent on Earth has them.

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RedPillMissionary 4 points ago +4 / -0

This is bullshit quackery. “They were too well fed to be slaves.” Thats the most childish, low IQ attempt at a narrative ive heard from archaeologists. That logic could exonerate slavery in the US: Backs werent slaves in the US, they had chicken, pork, and their own shacks.

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vinnychase 2 points ago +2 / -0

The Egyptians didn't even build the pyramids.

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TrumpYa3tih3asba 1 point ago +2 / -1

It was the aliens