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Slaves Vs Pyramids

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For many years, Egyptologist assumed that slaves built the pyramid. However, recent studies have shown that slaves may have not been involved at all. Many Egyptologists seem to have their own answer to who built the pyramids. Dr. Toby Wilkinson of Cambridge University, believes that, due to a working tax, it is likely that those who built the great pyramid were recruited from villages all over Egypt. Every person payed their taxes to the government by working for a certain period each year. “When local officials came to demand that you turn up for duty there was very little escaping that. So they weren’t slaves, but I suspect that they weren’t [sic] willing workers either,” (Geographic History). Dr. Amy Calvert, writes that those who built

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