The Egyptian pyramids

The Egyptian pyramids have always been shrouded in mystery. Its divine origins, its mystical powers or curses... There have been many archaeologists who have dedicated

their lives to unraveling the secrets of these perfect mega-constructions that were built around 3,800 years ago. But it is not yet known who were the ones who built

the more than 100 pyramids and the others that have not yet been discovered.

There are many theories that try to explain this, for example the biblical version that says that the workers who built them were Jewish slaves. According to

archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, there is no evidence that there were Israelis in Egypt during that time. There is no evidence whatsoever

in texts, temples or tomb inscriptions. Another Egyptian researcher named Zahi Hawass determines that those responsible for building these pyramids "were very well

treated workers" and assures that it makes no sense that they are slaves since they found several tombs next to the pyramids and the pharaohs would not have allowed

it if they were slaves. But something is clearly, since thanks to the work of archaeologists in the interpretation of symbols, they have revealed the papyrus

roll of an Egyptian foreman known as Merer, in which there are notes that are the only existing record that offers Fundamental data on how the Egyptian pyramids were

built and clarify many doubts about it. Here Merer indicates that the stones were extracted from the quarries by groups of about 200 men and that they were then

transferred by water to Giza through channels built solely and exclusively for it. At the destination there was a small inland port, a few meters from the Great

Pyramid of Cheops.The rock blocks received an inland port that was built a few meters from the base of the Great Pyramid, where they were dragged by the slaves who

built the impressive megaliths. The involvement of hundreds of workers has been known since the 1970s, when the American archaeologist and Egyptologist Mark Lehner discovered the remains of the city where

the workers who were responsible for building the pyramids lived. During the excavation they were able to verify that there had been a lot of cattle and fish in the city,

which would have served to feed hundreds of workers for 100 years.

The enigmatic pyramids of Egypt cause a strange sensation in all who visit them. in the plain of Giza are the most representative ones: those of Cheops, Kefren and Micerinos,

of different sizes but all of them monumental and that attract millions of tourists every year.

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