How many people worked on the pyramids?

Answer 1

It took 20,000 to 30,00 people to build the Great Pyramid.
The ancient Greek scholar Herodotus who lived around 450BC when the Great Pyramid was already 2000 years old, was told that it took 100,000 slaves twenty years to build.

Most modern historians accept the twenty years but believe it was more like 20,000 or 30,000 . It is thought there were about 5,000 skilled workers and administrators. The rest were labourers whether they were slaves or not is for you to decide. Let me know what you think.
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Like everything regarding the pyramids there is much debate and disagreement. However Egyptologists accept that the great pyramid was built by many tens of thousands of workers.

According to National Geographic it took an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 workers to build the Pyramids at Giza over a period of 80 years. A one time historians thought that slaves built the pyramids. It is now accepted that slaves were not used rather peasant farmers who were normally unemployed during the inundation of the river Nile.

Answer 2

The latest archaeological evidence indicates that the number of persons working on construction of any one of the great pyramids was probably between 10 and 20 thousand people at one time.

The overwhelming majority of the workers were not slaves but paid workers.

Answer

Hundreds and thousands of slaves

Answer 3

The Greek historian and traveller Herodotus writing c.450BC was told it took 100,000 men 20 years to build. More modern estimates put the number between 20,000 and 30,000. Most scholars today agree that the workers were not slaves but peasant farmers who worked on the pyramid for three months each year when the annual flood of the Nile made work in the fields impossible. No aliens were involved, only Egyptians.

Answer 4

Some research suggests alternate estimates to the accepted workforce size. For instance, mathematician Kurt Mendelssohn calculated that the workforce may have been 50,000 men at most, while Ludwig Borchardt and Louis Croon placed the number at 36,000. According to Miroslav Verner, a workforce of no more than 30,000 was needed in the Great Pyramid's construction.

Answer 5

Probably between 10,000 and 20,000 a mixture of skilled workers and slaves.

Answer 6

20,000 people for 20 years