Were the pyramids built by farmers?

The pyramids were built by farmers during the season when the Nile flooded their fields, so there was no farm work. These farmers were conscripted [con-SCRIPT-ed], which means they were called in to work by the officials in charge of the pyramid project.



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It was the Egyptians who built the pyramids. The Great Pyramid is dated with all the evidence, I'm telling you now to 4,600 years, the reign of Khufu. The Great Pyramid of Khufu is one of 104 pyramids in Egypt with superstructure. And there are 54 pyramids with substructure.

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Khufu's pyramid appears to have been built by excess farm labor out of harvesting season, all working during the three- or four- month lull between planting and harvesting. Unskilled brute slave labor was used to build various structures in Egypt, but as far as I know, the Giza pyramids were probably not one of them.

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This system is composed of a central ramp flanked by two staircases with numerous post holes, using a sled which carried a stone block and was attached with ropes to these wooden posts, ancient Egyptians were able to pull up the alabaster blocks out of the quarry on very steep slopes of 20 percent or more ...

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The pyramids are really never mentioned in the Bible although they were built long before Jesus was born. Since limestone is soft compared to other rocks, they probably were not in 'pristine' condition as the sand & wind would have had thousands of years to work on them.

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The construction of the pyramids is not specifically mentioned in the Bible. What we believe about their purpose does not impinge on any biblical doctrine.

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Considering the pyramids were built more than four thousand years ago, the exact technique of construction remains a mystery and modern-day equipment was not available at the time.

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Many people have said that the pyramids would last 1 million years or even until the world ended, but I'd say around 10,000 to 100,000 years based on current observations.

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While the pyramid was originally built by 4,000 workers over the course of 20 years using strength, sleds and ropes, building the pyramid today using stone-carrying vehicles, cranes and helicopters would probably take 1,500 to 2,000 workers around five years, and it would cost on the order of $5 billion, Houdin said, ...

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The unknowns of pyramid construction chiefly center on the question of how the blocks were moved up the superstructure. There is no known accurate historical or archaeological evidence that definitively resolves the question.

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Archaeologists believe that the Great Sphinx was built during Egypt's Old Kingdom (circa 2575–2150 B.C.) by the fourth-dynasty pharaoh Khafre. It is one of the world's oldest works of monumental sculpture and one of the largest.

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The Jews did not build any pyramids. First, there's no actual evidence of widespread Hebrew slavery or even presence in ancient Egypt. Exodus is myth and legend, and the Jews didn't build anything.

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During the Islamic history of Egypt, slavery were mainly focused on three categories: male slaves used for soldiers and bureaucrats, female slaves used for sexual slavery as concubines, and female slaves and eunuchs used for domestic service in harems and private households.

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The strong consensus of historians and biblical scholars is that the Israelite nation was never enslaved in Egypt and that there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible.

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In 2014 a small raptor skeleton was uncovered in a small section deep within The Great Pyramid of Giza. The skeleton is presumed to have been unearthed in the building process by the ancient Egyptians and placed into the pyramid due to it being an interesting find (4). All in all the Pyramids were built by people.

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In relation to the Washington Monument, it is most likely that some form of enslaved labor was used, based on the earlier construction of significant buildings and structures in Washington, such as the White House and U.S. Capitol Building, and the federal government's acceptance and regular use of enslaved laborers.

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Peasants and enslaved people would, of course, eat a limited diet, including the staples of bread and beer, complemented by dates, vegetables, and pickled and salted fish, but the wealthy had a much larger range to choose from.

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The exact number of deaths is unknown, but it is estimated that at least 4,000 workers died during the construction of the Great Pyramid.

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Pyramids weren't constructed to contain mummies; tombs were. There were a variety of tombs: simple pit-graves, mastabas, burial chambers beneath pyramids, and rock-cut cliff tombs were the chief ones.

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