# Were the Great Pyramids REALLY built by slaves?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 19, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-the-great-pyramids-really-built-by-slaves/561179 "2010-11-19T02:42:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-the-great-pyramids-really-built-by-slaves/561179/41 "2010-11-19T18:34:03Z")

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> [@spark240](#):
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> Ramesses III was a different world, more than a _thousand years_ after the time period I was speaking of.

We have continuous texts from the New Kingdom. On what are you basing your gut feeling, anyway? The Pyramid Texts?

I think our first texts that even concern tomb looting come from the First Intermediate period. One shouldn’t assume that looting didn’t exist prior to that. We just don’t have a ton of documents in general much prior to that.

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