The site is called Heit el-Ghurab, and it was also likely part of a larger port city along the Nile River where food and supplies for the pyramid workers, as well as pyramid construction materials, were imported from across the region. Archaeologists have also spent years excavating a sprawling complex thought to have been a part-time home for thousands of workers. Inside, archaeologists discovered all the necessary goods that pyramid workers would need to navigate passage to the afterlife - basic kindnesses unlikely to have been afforded common slaves.īut that’s not all. In 1990, a number of humble gravesites for pyramid workers were found a surprisingly short distance from the tombs of the pharaohs. We know this because archaeologists have found their tombs and other signs of the lives they lived. The best evidence suggests that pyramid workers were locals who were paid for their services and ate extremely well. But there is another misconception about pyramid construction that’s plagued Egyptian scholars for centuries: Slaves did not build the pyramids. Scientists have tried and failed to combat these baseless ideas. Frequently they involve ancient aliens, lizard people, the Freemasons, or an advanced civilization that used forgotten technology. There’s no end to conspiracy theories about who built the pyramids.
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