06/04/2021 11:30
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Updated 06/04/2021 11:30
After hundreds of years, it seems that the mystery has come to an end.
A team of archaeologists conducted a study to discover who built the pyramids in Egypt, around 2700 BC According to this research, the theory that those responsible were enslaved Jewish workers was demolished.
The team of archaeologists made the discovery while studying papyri, known as the “Merer's Diary”, discovered in 2013.
Contrary to the biblical version, it was
not enslaved Jewish workers who erected these monumental mausoleums.
The study of the ancient documents also banished other more unusual ideas such as those that maintained that the builders were the inhabitants of the lost city of Atlantis and even aliens.
The papyrus scroll contains the notes of an ancient Egyptian foreman named Merer
and is the only first-hand record that offers data on how the Egyptian pyramids were built.
In the notes Merer explains that the stones were quarried by about 200 men and then transferred to Giza through specially constructed canals.
The mysteries of the pyramids of Egypt.
The rock blocks received an inner 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.
In this way,
Zahi Hawass
, a famous Egyptologist, revealed that those responsible for building the pyramids of Egypt
"were very well treated workers."
The specialist came to this conclusion after having found a group of graves almost glued to them.
Zahi Hawass.
the 74-year-old expert.
There were 12 skeletons housed in a perfect state of preservation, in fetal positions, with the heads facing the west and the feet facing the east, so they coincide with the ancient beliefs of the burial of the deceased in that territory.
"If they had been slaves they would not be buried next to kings and queens," Hawass explained.
According to the newspaper La Nación, the hypothesis of the enslaved Jews had already been refuted by archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman in their book "Unearthed Bible: the new vision of ancient Israel archeology and the origin of its sacred texts ".
There, they assured that
no archaeological records of the Hebrew people were found in Egypt
that date back to 4,500 years, when the pyramids of Giza were erected.
Hawass is the greatest Egyptologist in the world.
“We have no clue, not even a single word, about the first Israelites in Egypt.
Not in the monumental inscriptions on the walls of the temples, not in the inscriptions on the tombs, not in the papyri ”, Finkelstein and Silberman wrote in their work.
Discarding the other two theories was a bit 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 with regard to aliens, the hypothesis rules out itself.
The American archaeologist and Egyptologist Mark Lehner said that
hundreds of men worked on the construction of the monuments
.
In an excavation he carried out during the 1970s, Lehner uncovered the remains of the city in which
the workers who worked on the pyramids
lived
.
There, he found a large number of cow bones and thousands of fish bones, and considered that this proportion of animals had served to feed hundreds of workers for almost a century.
The Great Pyramid of Cheops, in Egypt.
(AP)
The pyramids of Egypt are the most powerful and recognized iconic vestiges in the world, visited by millions of tourists per year.
Built as royal crypts for the pharaohs from 2700 BC, with blocks of stone lined with limestone, they were large columns of exposed white.
Tourists, in the fabulous pyramids.
Although there are more than 100 in the entire territory of this African country, the most recognized are those of
Cheops, Khafre and Menkaure
, raised in the plain of Giza: one of them is the highest and can be seen on the outskirts of the modern Egyptian capital, Cairo.
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