Sоurce: Kаtаrinа Kratоvac, “New Discоvery Shows Slaves Didn’t Build Pyramids, Egypt Says,” Associated Press, January 11, 2010.Egypt displayed newly discovered tombs that belonged to workers on the Great Pyramids of Giza and said they provide more evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments. The series of nine-foot-deep shafts held a dozen skeletons, perfectly preserved by dry desert sand along with jars that contained beer and bread meant for the workers’ afterlife. Egypt’s archaeology chief said that discovery show that the workers were paid laborers, rather than the slaves. Such tombs would not have been built for slaves. One popular myth was that ancient Israelite slaves—ancestors of the Jewish people—built the pyramids. Amihai Mazar, professor of archaeology, says that myth was mistaken … “No Jews built the pyramids because Jews didn’t exist in the period when the pyramids were built." Professor Mazar says. … "The pyramid builders came from poor Egyptian families from the north and the south and they were respected for their work – those who died during construction were given the honor of being buried in the tombs near the sacred pyramids of their pharaohs." … Though they were not slaves, the pyramid builders led a life of hard labor, said Adel Okasha, supervisor of the excavation. Their skeletons have signs of arthritis. … “Their bones tell us the story of how hard they worked,” Okasha said. Source: Interview with Zahi Hawass, Director General of Giza in 1997 to the PBS show NOVA.NOVA: From your excavations of the workers' cemetery you say you found skeletons. Did you analyze the bones, and if so, what did you learn about the workmen?HAWASS: We found 600 skeletons. And we found that those people were Egyptians, the same as in every cemetery in Egypt. We found evidence that those people had emergency treatment. They had accidents during building the pyramids- we found 12 skeletons who had accidents with their hands. And they supported the two sides of the injured hand with wood- like a splint And we have another one, a stone fell on his leg, and they made a kind of operation- they cut off his leg and he lived 14 years after that.NOVA: How do you know that?HAWASS: Because we have a team here from the National Research Center and they used an x-ray machine. They found that the age of death for those workmen was from 30 to 35. They were paid by the king and there were the technicians who cut the stones and workmen who moved the stones and they worked in rotation. They came by early in the morning and they worked fourteen hours from sunrise to sunset. QUESTIONS: 1. What evidence do modern experts use to find out about the lives of the workers on the pyramids? 2. Based on thses sources, what was life like for the pyramid builders? Your answer must be in your own words and supported by specific evidence from the reading. Your answer must be a minimum of 75 words.
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