New evidence reveals that the Pyramids in Egypt were built by paid workers, not slaves, reshaping views on ancient Egyptian ...

Who built the pyramids? Slaves, as Hollywood's version would have it? Jewish slaves, as an Israeli prime minister famously remarked? Neither, say Egyptian archaeologists.

Dr. Zahi Hawass says builders were not slaves; they wouldn't have been buried 'in the shadow of the pyramids'.

New archaeological findings from a study led by renowned Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass is challenging the long-standing belief that slaves built the pyramids in Egypt. Inscriptions discovered above ...

Additional tombs have been discovered too, where some of the skilled workers were laid to rest. In the tombs, the ...

One popular myth that Egyptologists say was perpetrated in part by Hollywood movies held that ancient Israelite slaves – ancestors of the Jewish people – built the pyramids.

Egyptian archeologists presented new evidence Monday that the people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza were not Jewish slaves, but paid laborers. Newly discovered tombs show construction ...

Those are the people who really built the pyramids, the poor Egyptians. It's very important to prove how the pyramid was built. The pyramid you know, has magic, it has mystery.

The Pyramids of Giza rise from the west bank of the Nile River almost as an act of defiance, perfectly symmetrical behemoths imposed upon a flat, barren landscape. The Great Pyramid—the oldest ...

One popular myth that Egyptologists say was perpetrated in part by Hollywood movies held that ancient Israelite slaves — ancestors of the Jewish people — built the pyramids.