Egypt
Shemsu Sesen over at Em Hotep has recently published an article on the pyramid builders of the fourth dynasty and the settlement discovered by Dr Mark Lehner nearby that relates to the builders. In part one of a planned three parts Shemsu Sesen covers the question of slave builders in relation to the community found near the pyramids.
From the article I would guess he is on the money.
- Who Built The Pyramids?
Ahram Online (Zahi Hawass) “Who built the pyramids?” This is a question that the public still asks me even today. My continuing discoveries at the site of the tombs of the pyramid builders at Giza (first found in 1990) clearly demonstrate that these...
- Who Built The Pyramids?
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/he1.htm "The Giza Plateau Mapping Project is searching for the human hand in the construction of these powerful symbols of remote antiquity which have intrigued and fascinated people for generations, says Jill Kamil....
- Book: Giza Reports Volume 1
http://www.aeraweb.org/gizareports.asp Details of this new publication (inluding Contents listing), available in late Spring 2007, can be found on the above page: "Ancient Egypt Research Associates and the Giza Plateau Mapping Project are pleased to announce...
- Dig Days: The Pyramid Builders Ii (zahi Hawass)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/687/her2.htm An article by Zahi Hawass in Al Ahram Weekly about the Pyramid Builders' Village at Giza. "The discovery of the tombs of the Pyramid builders has provided us with vital information about the workmen who...
- The Pyramid Builders
Mark Lehner is all over the place today here he talks about his work at the site of the pyramid builders at Giza. http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/06/28/sci_Egyptologist.ART_ART_06-28-09_G3_MNE9H7A.html?sid=101...
Egypt
Pyramid Builders
Shemsu Sesen over at Em Hotep has recently published an article on the pyramid builders of the fourth dynasty and the settlement discovered by Dr Mark Lehner nearby that relates to the builders. In part one of a planned three parts Shemsu Sesen covers the question of slave builders in relation to the community found near the pyramids.
From the article I would guess he is on the money.
- Who Built The Pyramids?
Ahram Online (Zahi Hawass) “Who built the pyramids?” This is a question that the public still asks me even today. My continuing discoveries at the site of the tombs of the pyramid builders at Giza (first found in 1990) clearly demonstrate that these...
- Who Built The Pyramids?
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/he1.htm "The Giza Plateau Mapping Project is searching for the human hand in the construction of these powerful symbols of remote antiquity which have intrigued and fascinated people for generations, says Jill Kamil....
- Book: Giza Reports Volume 1
http://www.aeraweb.org/gizareports.asp Details of this new publication (inluding Contents listing), available in late Spring 2007, can be found on the above page: "Ancient Egypt Research Associates and the Giza Plateau Mapping Project are pleased to announce...
- Dig Days: The Pyramid Builders Ii (zahi Hawass)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/687/her2.htm An article by Zahi Hawass in Al Ahram Weekly about the Pyramid Builders' Village at Giza. "The discovery of the tombs of the Pyramid builders has provided us with vital information about the workmen who...
- The Pyramid Builders
Mark Lehner is all over the place today here he talks about his work at the site of the pyramid builders at Giza. http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/06/28/sci_Egyptologist.ART_ART_06-28-09_G3_MNE9H7A.html?sid=101...