How many people helped to build the pyramid?

Answer 1

The Greek historian Herodotus (c.450BC) said that it took 100,000 slaves to build the Great Pyramid of king Khufu. Modern estimates put the number at about 10,000 to 30,000. A smaller pyramid as the earlier and later pyramids were obviously took fewer workers.

Not all the labour force would have been slaves, there would have been an elite corps of masons, quarrymen and supervisors. The slave did hard back-breaking work such as quarrying, dragging the stones up the ramp and putting them in place. They were at the mercy of tough overseers. Food was pretty basic. The slaves were always unkempt, dirty and probably naked.