After hundreds of years, it seems that one of the most significant mysteries of humanity has been revealed. A group of archaeologists discover who built the Egyptian pyramids around 2700 BC. According to the investigation, the theory that those responsible were enslaved Jewish workers was demolished.
The great find was made while archaeologists were studying some papyri, known as the Merer’s Diarydiscovered in 2013. Research by experts showed that they were not enslaved jews who raised these monumental mausoleums. Likewise, he banished other more unusual ideas such as those that held that the builders were the inhabitants of the lost city of Atlantis. And even the alien theory.
The only record of the construction of the pyramids
Archaeologists claim that the papyrus scroll contains the notes of an ancient Egyptian foreman named Merer. And that, in addition, it is the only first-hand record that offers data on how the Egyptian pyramids were built.
In the notes, Merer relates that the stones were extracted from the quarries for about 200 men then transferred to Giza through specially constructed channels. The large stone blocks rested in an interior port that was built a few meters from the base of the pyramids. And later they were dragged by the slaves who built the impressive megaliths.
In this way, Zahi Hawass, a famous Egyptologist, revealed that those responsible for building the pyramids of Egypt:
“They were very well treated workers.”
The expert came to this conclusion after finding a group of tombs almost attached to them. They were resting there 12 skeletons in a perfect state of preservation, in fetal positions, with heads to the west and feet to the east. Coinciding with ancient beliefs, the burial of the deceased in that territory.
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“If they had been slaves they would not be buried next to the kings and queens,” Hawass explained.
Discarding the other two theories was a little easier. Because no archaeological evidence was found, at any time, of the existence of the lost city of Atlantis. Of which many researchers consider an invention, a myth. And regarding aliens, the hypothesis rules itself out.
Mark Lehner, The American archaeologist and Egyptologist claimed that Hundreds of men worked on the construction of the monuments. In an excavation he carried out during the 1970s, Lehner discovered the remains of the city in which the workers who worked on the pyramids lived.
There he also found a large number of cow bones and thousands of fish bones. And he considered that this proportion of animals had served to feed to hundreds of workers for almost a century.