Tomb discovery helps solve ancient slavery riddle of the pyramids

The location of tombs discovered in Egypt helps prove the men who built the great pyramids were not slaves after all, say archeologists.

A set of tombs belonging to the workers who built them has been discovered which sheds light on how they lived and ate more than 4,000 years ago.

The thousands of men who built the last remaining wonder of the ancient world regularly ate meat and worked three-month rotating shifts.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242096/Tomb-discovery-helps-solve-ancient-slavery-riddle-pyramids.html#ixzz0cC8SntTY


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