The Workforce Behind the Pyramids | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:02:51 Royal Officials and Master Builders
00:06:43 Middle Management
00:09:50 Crew Structure
00:15:55 Team Identity and Camaraderie
00:20:30 Logistics and Provisioning
00:27:26 No, They We're not Slaves
00:30:27 Trades and Skills
00:50:07 Daily Life on the Pyramid Project
00:56:25 Thoughts and Conclusion

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Sources and Further Reading

Herodotus (c. 440 BCE). The Histories (Book II).

Breasted, J. H. (1906). Ancient Records of Egypt, Vol. I: The First through the Seventeenth Dynasties. (Contains translations of Old Kingdom inscriptions, e.g. the Autobiography of Weni).

Tallet, P. & Marouard, G. (2014). “The Harbor of Khufu on the Red Sea Coast at Wadi al-Jarf, Egypt.” Near Eastern Archaeology, 77(1), 4–14. (First publication of Inspector Merer’s logbook papyri).

Tallet, P. & Lehner, M. (2021). The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids. (Thames & Hudson).

David, A. R. (1997). The Pyramid Builders of Ancient Egypt: A Modern Investigation of Pharaoh’s Workforce. (Cambridge University Press).

Hawass, Z. (2006). Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders. (Doubleday).

Lehner, M. (1997). The Complete Pyramids. (Thames & Hudson).

Lehner, M. & Hawass, Z. (2017). Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History. (Thames & Hudson).

Tyldesley, J. (2003). Pyramids: The Real Story Behind Egypt’s Most Ancient Monuments. (Penguin Books).

Strudwick, N. (2005). Texts from the Pyramid Age. (Society of Biblical Literature).

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