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The pyramids were built not by slaves but largely by paid workers fed on bread and beer, whose tombs were laid out with care; the image of 'slaves under the whip' comes mostly from Hollywood and old prejudice. Whether we imagine a monument built 'by tyranny or by organized labor,' aren't we just projecting our own era's idea of work onto the past?

— The workers' tombs at Giza, archaeological findings