
Egyptian pharaohs: everything you wanted to know
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Are They Really Buried With the Pharaos?
There's an association with live people, or slaves been buried with the pharaos ad. But no, this doesn't happen at all. A lot of people built the pyramids. It was a sort of national service. They were summoned from villages and towns all over egypt. The primits were surrounded by tombs of nobles who were close to the king but these people weren't killed. And anyway, they they just died natural deaths.
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