A large number of people perhaps 10,000 to 30,000 at any one time:
1. Skilled workers such as masons, carpenters, smiths (coppersmiths rather than blacksmiths), rope makers and surveyors.
2. the supervisors scribes, foremen in charge of the labour gangs
3. thousands of slaves who did all the heavy and often dangerous unskilled work.
It was readily available close to the sites where pyramids were built. Limestone is a relatively soft stone which can be worked with copper tools.
the majority of slaves worked in the houses of the rich
I ame sure that slaves worked alongside with builders and archictects while building pyramids.In kufu's pyramid though, it was slaves who worked the most.
The Egyptians were people that lived in Egypt that work day and night. They built pyramids, worked for the Pharaoh, farmed, traded, and did a lot more.
I don't know exactly how many, but I know there are Egyptian pyramids, Aztec and Mayan pyramids, unfinished pyramids, and rock pyramids, and sand pyramids.
100,000
A person who worked on the construction of the pyramids.
It was readily available close to the sites where pyramids were built. Limestone is a relatively soft stone which can be worked with copper tools.
the majority of slaves worked in the houses of the rich
No Egyption farmers also built them during the off season.
When they weren't planting and harvesting they were working on the pyramids because everyone worked on them, whether they be a merchant or a farmer they all helped with the pyramids.
Workers who built the pyramids in ancient Egypt were not paid with money, but rather with food, clothing, and housing. They were likely farmers who worked on the pyramids during the flood season when their fields were submerged. The work on the pyramids was considered a form of national duty or service to the pharaoh.
Food, water, shelter and clothes but no money. If you worked on building the pyramids you went naked.
Egyptian farmers worked for the Pharaoh making pyramids and temples.
I ame sure that slaves worked alongside with builders and archictects while building pyramids.In kufu's pyramid though, it was slaves who worked the most.
The hours the pyramid builders worked were governed by daylight. It is most likely they worked between 10 and 12 hours a day.
The Egyptians were people that lived in Egypt that work day and night. They built pyramids, worked for the Pharaoh, farmed, traded, and did a lot more.