Pyramids Built by Who? Who built the pyramids? This is a very debatable topic which no one has the answer to, and may never will. So who built the pyramids; slaves or paid workers? I have gone through five following documents that do their best to convince you that slaves, or paid workers, actually built the pyramids. In document A: Herodotus and document B: Textbook, they argue that slaves did build the pyramids. Many men were worked to death, and not paid at all. It was said that the pharaoh Cheops, closed all the temples and forced the egyptians to work for him. They were in groups of hundred thousand and each worked for three months. Another thing was one-hundred thousand “lash-driven men” did what they were forced and after twenty years