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Depends on the size of the pyramid and the time it took to build.

The Greek historian and traveller Herodotus who visited Egypt over 2000 years after the Great Pyramid of Giza was built was told by a local priest that 100,000 slaves were employed for 20 years.

Modern estimates put the number at 10000 to 20000. In the opinion of many scholars the workers were peasants conscripted to work on the pyramid when work was impossible in the fields due to the annual inundation of the River Nile. The time it took to build varies between 14 and 20 years.

Slaves of peasants, what do you think?

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