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Slavery In Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Egypt is a time where there are slaves, non-slaves, and rulers, the pharaohs. Theories and practices of the Egyptian slaveries can proof this as there are some disagreements whether there was slavery in ancient Egypt or not. These different opinions are mostly from how slavery is represented or defined. There were some beliefs that slaves did built the Great Pyramid at Giza. Others, however, believe that slaves did not build the Great Pyramid at Giza. According to these documents, slaves and non-slaves were both responsible for building the Great Pyramid at Giza regardless of its opposites.
As many archaeologists and Egyptologists studies ancient Egypt, they believe that slaves did build the Great Pyramid at Giza. Dr. Mark Shiffman …show more content…

Slaves aren’t the ones that build the Great Pyramid at Giza. There are some evidences that proves this idea. Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian archeologist, spent decades excavating and analyzing areas around the pyramids. He “....said that discovery and the latest finds last week show that the workers were paid laborers, rather than the slaves of popular imagination...the builders came from poor Egyptian families from the north and the south, and were respected for their work-so much so that those who died during the construction were bestowed the honor of being buried in the tombs near the sacred pyramids of their pharaohs...No way would they have been buried so honorably if they were slaves.” In this case, if it were the slaves that built the Great Pyramid at Giza, they wouldn't have been be secured respectively and buried so honorably as they were that time. They won't not even have been out of harm’s way. Regardless, the builders of the pyramid were secured respectively. Dr. Mark Lehrner, another archeologist that has worked along with Hawass, an Egyptologist, for several years. “The Friend Friends of Khufu Gang...And in the Old Kingdom in the time of the Pyramids of Giza, the gangs were named after kings. This doesn't sound like slavery does it?” This demonstrates they were not slaves because following their name,

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In Document C it states, “The series of modest nine-foot-deep shafts held a dozen skeletons of pyramid builders,” then later the document states that they would never bury slaves that honorably. Later Document E contradicts, “One is that no one bothers to tell us in the broadcast sources how many tombs specifically belonging to workers have been found and what proportion of the workforce they might represent.” This shows that researchers are not lying that they found tombs yet they are not stating all the

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