{"id":10335,"date":"2012-04-30T11:55:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=10335"},"modified":"2012-04-30T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:55:42","slug":"the-pyramids-of-giza-were-likely-not-built-by-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/the-pyramids-of-giza-were-likely-not-built-by-slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pyramids of Giza were Likely Not Built by Slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pyramid-builders-fact.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10336\" title=\"pyramid-builders-fact\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pyramid-builders-fact.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pyramid-builders-fact.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pyramid-builders-fact-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pyramid-builders-fact-340x338.jpg 340w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pyramid-builders-fact-90x90.jpg 90w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pyramid-builders-fact-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Myth: slaves likely built the pyramids of Giza.\u00a0 In fact, it is no longer thought that the pyramids of Giza were built by slaves.\u00a0 Archeological evidence shows that the worker\u2019s town comprised of whole families, not just men as would have been the case if they were slaves.\u00a0 Further, the people were extremely well taken care of including the highest quality health care available at the time and they were also extremely well fed.\u00a0 These and other such hints from the past, relatively recently discovered, seem to indicate that the laborers were there of their own volition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/the-pyramids-of-giza-were-originally-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sources<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth: slaves likely built the pyramids of Giza.\u00a0 In fact, it is no longer thought that the pyramids of Giza were built by slaves.\u00a0 Archeological evidence shows that the worker\u2019s town comprised of whole families, not just men as would have been the case if they were slaves.\u00a0 Further, the people were extremely well taken care of including the highest [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[830,2464,2463,2486,2487,1355,2485],"class_list":["post-10335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-history-facts","tag-know-it","tag-now-you-know","tag-pyramid-facts","tag-pyramid-myths","tag-pyramids-of-giza-facts","tag-pyramids-of-giza-slaves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10338,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335\/revisions\/10338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}