Shaw, Jonathan,
Who Built the Pyramids?. Jonathan Shaw. - Harvard Magazine, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 37, Science, 1522-3264; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Who Built the Pyramids?, July/Aug. 2003; pp. 42+.
"The question of who labored to build them [the pyramids], and why, has long been part of their fascination. Rooted firmly in the popular imagination is the idea that the pyramids were built by slaves serving a merciless pharaoh. This notion of a vast slave class in Egypt originated in Judeo-Christian tradition and has been popularized by Hollywood producers like Cecil B. De Mille's The Ten Commandments, in which a captive people labor in the scorching sun beneath the whips of pharaoh's overseers. But graffiti from inside the Giza monuments themselves have long suggested something very different." (HARVARD MAGAZINE) This article analyzes a new theory concerning the building of the pyramids of Giza.
1522-3264;
Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt
Great Sphinx (Egypt)
Historic sites--Conservation and restoration
Pyramids--Design and construction
Working class
Egypt--Antiquities
Egypt--History
Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)
AC1.S5
050
Who Built the Pyramids?. Jonathan Shaw. - Harvard Magazine, 2003. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Article 37, Science, 1522-3264; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2004. Originally Published: Who Built the Pyramids?, July/Aug. 2003; pp. 42+.
"The question of who labored to build them [the pyramids], and why, has long been part of their fascination. Rooted firmly in the popular imagination is the idea that the pyramids were built by slaves serving a merciless pharaoh. This notion of a vast slave class in Egypt originated in Judeo-Christian tradition and has been popularized by Hollywood producers like Cecil B. De Mille's The Ten Commandments, in which a captive people labor in the scorching sun beneath the whips of pharaoh's overseers. But graffiti from inside the Giza monuments themselves have long suggested something very different." (HARVARD MAGAZINE) This article analyzes a new theory concerning the building of the pyramids of Giza.
1522-3264;
Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt
Great Sphinx (Egypt)
Historic sites--Conservation and restoration
Pyramids--Design and construction
Working class
Egypt--Antiquities
Egypt--History
Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)
AC1.S5
050