The Great Pyramid At Giza Research Paper

If the slaves built the Great Pyramid at Giza is very hard to know. I believe that most of the workers were slaves but, I think a small number of them were paid workers. The sources Herodotus and the textbook showed that the slaves did build the Great Pyramid at Giza. Herodotus and the textbook states that the king forced the Egyptian slaves to work for 20 years. They also state over 10,000 men worked on building the pyramid. The source Shiffman said a large number of the workers were slaves forced to do hard labor but, 25% of workers were high standard and paid.
The sources Awass and Lerhner said the Great Pyramid at Giza was not built by slaves. Awass said the workers were paid and respected poor workers looking to earn money. The workers were given beer and bread for their after life and buried in tombs for honor. The reference …show more content…
I believed that all of the sources could be trusted for different reasons. I think Herodotus and the textbook are reliable sources because they both said the same things about the pyramid, but they are not as reliable as the other references because it did not have as much physical evidence showing that slaves built the Pyramid at Giza. Awass is a reliable source because there is a lot of physical evidence to provide for their idea. They found the tombs the workers were buried in and the food provided for the workers. The source Lerhner also has a lot of physical evidence. They found hieroglyphs and drawings on the tomb. I also think the source Shiffman is a credible resource because they have found evidence believing only slaves built the Pyramid at Giza and evidence that only paid workers built the pyramid. They believed they both did, and that is the source I relied on because there can not be proof that just the slaves built it or just paid workers did. I like to think it was both working together to build the Great Pyramid at