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Egyptian tomb find suggests pyramid builders weren’t slaves |
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 15:52 |
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(Bloomberg) -- Egypt’s discovery of a group of ancient tombs of workmen who built the Pyramids of Giza suggests that the workers who built the final resting place of the Pharaohs weren’t slaves, the Culture Ministry said today.
The tombs which date back to the reigns of Pharaohs Khufu and Khafra are part of a complex of workers’ tombs that were first discovered when a horse stumbled upon the necropolis in 1990, the Cairo-based ministry said in an e-mailed statement. Khufu and Khafra ruled between 2609 B.C. and 2551 B.C., it said.
“These tombs were built beside the king’s pyramid, which indicates that these people were not by any means slaves,” Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said in the statement. “If they were slaves, they would not have been able to build their tombs beside the king’s.”
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