They discovered one of the greatest enigmas: who built the pyramids of Egypt

After hundreds of years, the mystery seems to be over. A team of archaeologists conducted a study to discover who built the pyramids in Egypt, around 2700 BC According to this investigation, the theory that those responsible were enslaved Jewish workers was demolished. The team of archaeologists found while studying the papyri, known as the “Diary of Merer”, discovered in 2013.

Contrary to the biblical version, These monumental mausoleums were not built by enslaved Jewish workers. The study of ancient documents also removes other unusual ideas such as those who believe that the builders were the inhabitants of the lost city of Atlantis and even extraterrestrials.

The papyrus scroll contains notes of an ancient Egyptian foreman named Merer and it 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 excavated by about 200 men and then moved to Giza through specially constructed canals.

The stone blocks received an inner harbor built a few meters from the base of the Great Pyramid, where they were dragged by slaves who built magnificent megaliths.

In this way, Zahi Hawassa famous Egyptologist, has revealed that those responsible for the construction of the pyramids of Egypt “They are very well treated workers.” The specialist came to this conclusion after finding a group of graves almost attached to them.

There, 12 skeletons were placed in an ideal state of care, in fetal positions, with their heads facing west and their feet facing east, so they coincided with the ancient belief of the burial of the deceased in that territory. “If they became slaves they would not be buried next to kings and queens,” Hawass explains.

According to the newspaper La Nación, the hypothesis of enslaved Jews has been refuted by archaeologists Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman in their book “Bible unearthed: the new vision of the archeology of ancient Israel and the origin of its sacred texts “. There, they made sure of that no archaeological records of the Hebrew people have been found in Egypt going back 4500 years, when the pyramids of Giza were built.

“We have no idea, not a word, about the first Israelites in Egypt. Neither on the monumental inscriptions on the walls of the temples, nor on the inscriptions on the tombs, or on the papyri, ”wrote Finkelstein and Silberman in their work.

Disposing of the other two theories is somewhat easier because no archaeological evidence has been found, at any time, of the existence of the missing city of Atlantis, which many researchers consider an invention, a myth. And as for aliens, the hypothesis dismisses itself.

American archaeologist and Egyptologist Mark Lehner claimed that hundreds of men worked on the construction of the monuments. In an excavation he did in the 1970s, Lehner discovered the remains of the city where they lived. the workers worked on the pyramids. There, he found large numbers of beef bones and thousands of fish bones, and considered that the proportion of these animals served to feed hundreds of workers for nearly a century.

Egypt’s pyramids are the most powerful and emblematic relics recognized in the world, visited by millions of tourists every year. Built as royal crypts for the pharaohs from 2700 BC, with stone blocks lined with limestone, they are large columns of exposed white.

Although there are over 100 in the entire territory of this African country, the most recognized are those in Khufu, Khafre and Menkaureraised on the plains of Giza: one of these is the tallest and can be seen just outside Egypt’s modern capital, Cairo.