Absolutely right. The Egyptians used a system of corvee labor for their internal building projects mainly as a mechanism for keeping the population busy during the flood season. That was also the best time to move heavy stones downstream from the granite quarries near Aswan.
The Egyptians had a charming habit of killing captives rather than enslaving them. In this, they were far from alone.
Which is not to say that slavery was unknown in Egypt but it was not the institutionalized way of doing things that it became under the Greeks and, especially, the Romans.
The Egyptians had a charming habit of killing captives rather than enslaving them. In this, they were far from alone.
Which is not to say that slavery was unknown in Egypt but it was not the institutionalized way of doing things that it became under the Greeks and, especially, the Romans.
