Two juvenile skeletons lie with their heads at opposite ends at the North Tombs Cemetery at Egypt's Amarna site. (Mary Shepperson/Courtesy of The Amarna Project)
Two juvenile skeletons lie with their heads at opposite ends at the North Tombs Cemetery at Egypt's Amarna site. (Mary Shepperson/Courtesy of The Amarna Project)
Life was cheap and even young people were used up until they died. Sad.
But to the politically correct and historically ignorant, there is only one period of slavery that ever existed.
Poor kids. The bones cry out.
Historians and archeologists fawn over the giant monument building civilizations, and always attributing “greatness” to them with the monuments as evidence of it. In most cases the “greatness” was due to slavery of one sort or another and nothing to fawn over.
Totally disagree with that Israeli historian who discounts the basic accuracy of the Biblical Exodus. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Further, New Kingdom Egypt with its imperial adventures was not the same as Old Kingdom Egypt.
Old Kingdom Egypt used construction work as a public employment function and many of the workers were skilled craftsmen. Empire created a whole new perspective regarding construction laborers.
