Serious question

Walt said:
Egyptians made cultural distinctions, but not racial ones. Someone with black skin who had grandparents born and raised in Egypt, and who conformed to the Egyptian culture would have been considered Egyptian. Egyptians fully accepted they were a mixed lot between the Middle East and Sub-Sahara Africa. They did not generally accept Europeans, until very late in their history, but other than that they accepted all.
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Oh, they made racial ones too. Hittites, Sea Peoples, Nubians, etc. These weren't simply cultural distinctions but ones of race too.
 
Walt said:
It is doubtful that the pyramids were built by slaves, because the Egyptians and Nubians would never have allowed dirty outsiders to touch their most sacred sites. It was built by peasants in the off season from their farming. They did this as a devotion to their religion.
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Actually, the lead construction was done by skilled artisans and tradesmen who knew their profession. Statues sculpted from stone didn't carve themselves and some farmer in the off season wasn't doing that. Sure, grunt workers might have been something like that to earn extra cash, but the core of the construction was done by professional, skilled labor.
 
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