−50%The Pharaoh's Workforce: Who really built the pyramids, and how they lived
Simon Ashbourne · narrated by Desmond Cross
2026
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You will walk beside the people who raised the pyramids, not as faceless slaves but as skilled workers with names, families, and measured rations of bread and radishes. Simon Ashbourne draws you into a sunbaked village at Giza's edge, where papyri reveal pay ledgers, sick days, and work gangs who carved their identities into stone. You will hear how the annual Nile flood became the season of going forth, when farmers became builders, and how copper chisels and rope sledges moved mountains. Desmond Cross narrates with the steady patience of a storyteller who trusts the past to speak for itself, his voice warm against the desert silence. Let the stones finally tell you who they remember.
21 chapters
- 1Before We Begin4m
- 2Chapter 1: The Silence of the Stones20m
- 3Chapter 2: What the Papyri Actually Say16m
- 4Chapter 3: The Village at the Desert's Edge13m
- 5Chapter 4: Gangs with Names14m
- 6Chapter 5: Bread and Radishes17m
- 7Chapter 6: The Season of Going Forth16m
- 8Chapter 7: Tools and the Hands That Held Them18m
- 9Chapter 8: A Mark on the Block19m
- 10Chapter 9: The Physician and the Bones19m
- 11Chapter 10: Where They Slept16m
- 12Chapter 11: Bread-Drink for the Thirsty15m
- 13Chapter 12: The Scribe Who Counted20m
- 14Chapter 13: Feast Days and Small Gods13m
- 15Chapter 14: The Village After the King15m
- 16Chapter 15: How a Pyramid Gets Built15m
- 17Chapter 16: Reading the Walls17m
- 18Chapter 17: When the Evidence Runs Out14m
- 19What Remains2m
- 20About the Author2m
- 21Where to Go From Here1m
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