Did Hebrew slaves build the pyramids in Egypt?

Associated Press Writer CAIRO—Egypt displayed on Monday newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, presenting the discovery as more evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments. read more

The involvement of Jewish slaves depends when the Pyramids were built and depends what you consider as jewish. The term "Jewish" as we know today started to circulate during Kingdom of Judea. So if there were jewish slaves in Egypt before they would not be called jewish. read more

Dieter Wildung, a former director of Berlin's Egyptian Museum, said it is "common knowledge in serious Egyptology" that the pyramid builders were not slaves and that the construction of the pyramids and the story of the Israelites in Egypt were separated by hundreds of years. read more

The stories we hear in Sunday school seem to form the basis for the popular belief that Jewish slaves were forced to build the pyramids in Egypt, but they were saved when they left Egypt in a mass Exodus. read more