@aportablekindofmagic: They were actually treated pretty well with the information we have from Died el-Medina, where the workers would live while working on the pyramids #archaeology #classics #ancientegypt
The Bible doesn’t even mention the pyramids. not once. what?
2026-09-25 23:58:59
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ponsbytwo :
I’m genuinely asking, when you say “conscripted temporarily” - “conscripted” is typically understood to mean non-voluntary, as in enlistment by force rather than choice - so how would ‘non-voluntary’ employment be different than slavery?
2026-09-27 15:37:25
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monkeystuffing :
'conscripted temporarily'
2026-09-26 06:28:48
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zapellett90 :
If Romans and Greeks used slaves to build their major works, you will never convince me life 2500 years before them was somehow a normal 9-5
2026-09-26 06:02:10
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Morfalath :
anchor fallacy
2026-09-29 02:33:35
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꧁❀𝑹𝒆𝒏❀꧂ :
YES!!! Other pyramids even had pay stubs for the laborers!! I’m sure at least some pyramids involved slaves but a ton didn’t!
2026-09-25 23:05:15
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sal.pal.314 :
didnt they also basically unionize? like they work stoppage-d to get better conditions
2026-09-25 22:05:05
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hunter_hatcher :
guys its literally well documented they worked in six month work rotations had their own city and recieved the same quality meat as royalty but saying slaves is more convientt and normalizes the concept more
2026-09-26 06:36:04
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Dreamscapesandvisions :
One of my all time fav archaeological discoveries was how they discovered records of how there was once a stop work strike because the Pharaoh at the time had not been keeping up with payments, so they went on strike until he did 😂😂😂
2026-09-27 09:00:11
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Maaji :
... once again something I learned in school was wrong, apparently
2026-09-26 04:15:45
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Yogi :
It feels like you are trivializing the worker’s experience
2026-09-26 09:58:37
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🎸⁸ :
I'm pretty sure in ancient Egypt there was both slaves and paid workers, and they were used for different things
2026-09-27 17:21:51
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卂爪ㄥ⚛️ :
weren’t they buried RIGHT next to the pyramid, their greatest work or sumn like that?
2026-09-26 15:19:58
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Isla :
Wait…. It wasn’t aliens?
2026-09-25 23:01:10
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UrMailMan :
if I'm not wrong the Israelites were enslaved working fields and mining not actually building the structures themselves. they are only depicted as doing such in popular media to dramatize certain aspects and because this fact was still debated during the 90s and early 2000s I think. but that's 20+ years ago now so they know somewhat better.
2026-09-26 06:00:29
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~♡Αριάδνη♡~ :
some of them were even buried in the smaller pyramids if im right
2026-09-26 01:17:29
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Emissary of Wind :
For a lot of the people conscripted, it was actually the way they paid taxes, instead of paying with money or grain they would pay in labor.
2026-09-27 00:32:02
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Coral!🪸🐊 :
okg I thought this was an aliens build the pyramids thing
2026-09-25 23:18:50
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𝑉𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛🌘🪐 :
Wasn't it also a huge honor to build the pharao's grave?
2026-09-27 01:29:57
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Biomewanderer :
its crazy that people concider a book with necromancy, witchcraft (fantasy style), and wizards a historically valid source💀
2026-09-26 12:31:30
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jadecienn :
Wait I was always told they were built by slaves.. so they weren’t? We only learned about the pyramids in 7th grade
2026-09-26 04:54:56
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BobcatDance :
In my experience they will instead try to argue the semantics of corvée labor and what counts as slavery rather than be open to learning 😅
2026-09-25 22:29:59
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Sanozaza :
ancient Egyptian frugal father going for the Labor Tax instead of grain tax:
2026-09-25 23:50:03
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Callum🩷✨️🍀(#1 Bruins Fan) :
wow. I didn't know that. it's so strange to see how easy misinformation can spread, and change the perception of history. I'm glad to know this now, thank you! I love learning things
2026-09-26 00:04:46
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Ethan :
yall know their were more pyramids than the pyramids of giza right
2026-09-27 08:18:30
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