Sully
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Labor was cheap. They used slaves.
That's been disproven for a while. The Egyptians actually kept very detailed records on the workforce and how they were paid. They were normally paid in rations of beer commensurate with the amount of work they accomplished in a day. Many of the workers that worked on the pyramids were highly skilled artisans. With the construction of the pyramid being a government funded project, it was the biggest and best paying gig in the country. Plus it was job security as well. It took somewhere around 20 years to construct a pyramid, so many of the workers would spend most of their adult life working on it.