Who Built the Pyramids?. Jonathan Shaw.
by Shaw, Jonathan; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 37Science. Publisher: Harvard Magazine, 2003ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Egypt -- Antiquities | Egypt -- History | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt | Great Sphinx (Egypt) | Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration | Pyramids -- Design and construction | Pyramids of Giza (Egypt) | Working classDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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.
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