The discovery of workers’ tombs on the Giza plateau on the western edge of Cairo and at the entrance of a one kilometer-long necropolis is now debunking the belief that the Great Pyramids were built by slaves.
What made this belief even more realistic are the films shown to the public where slaves toiled to build the mammoth pyramids and in their struggle some meet horrifying end to their lives.
“These tombs were built beside the king’s pyramid, which indicates that these people were not by any means slaves,” Zahi Hawass, the chief archaeologist heading the Egyptian excavation team, said in a statement.
“If they were slaves, they would not have been able to build their tombs beside their king’s.”
According to Hawass, the group of workers’ tombs found in the 1990s belonged to workers who helped built the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre. This was indicated by the graffiti found on the walls of the tomb site, saying, “ friends of Khufu,” which simply implied that they were not slaves.
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