We picture the pyramids rising from the desert through sheer force and slave labor. A brutal, backbreaking effort. Men driven by whips, dying in the heat, building monuments for pharaohs who saw them as disposable. That image is mostly wrong. The pyramids were built by a well-fed, w…
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