Paid Laborers Built the Great Pyramid

Recent archaeological discoveries reveal that the builders of the Great Pyramid were not slaves,

but rather paid laborers who lived relatively well, as evidenced by the workers' village

discovered near Giza in the late 20th century. Their diet was rich in protein compared

to other workers in ancient Egypt. While ancient historians like Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus

offered varying estimates of the number of workers, modern studies suggest that tens of thousands

participated in the project—a logical number for a construction of this scale.