Practice question · True or false
The pyramid builders were paid workers who received bread, beer and medical care.
Hints
- What did the workers' village yield?
- Bakeries, breweries and healed fractures.
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True
Why
True. Excavation at Giza uncovered a workers' settlement with industrial-scale bakeries and breweries, and skeletons showing set fractures and survived surgery. The slave narrative comes from Herodotus and the Book of Exodus, not from the site, the evidence points to organised, provisioned, seasonal labour.
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