Egypt tombs suggest pyramids not built by slaves

[john m roberts]

It could be that people of the Classical era (and later) simply could not imagine free people hauling those colossal stones around. There must have been some guy with a whip involved. And of course huge mobs of whip-driven slaves make for much better cinema than a bunch of grousing, bitching peasants on the ropes with harassed overseers wheedling and bribing them to haul a little harder.