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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 494847" data-attributes="member: 2525">Note also that Zahi has an admitted bias against finding that slaves built the pyramids.  He was appointed to the position chiefly because of this belief.  It is currently to Egypt's political advantage to claim that jews had nothing to do with the pyramids, and that Egypt does not have a history of slavery, but that the ancestors of the Egyptian people built it voluntarily as a sign of greatness.  He basically says that is his agenda in the National Geographic show, but he justifies this with the evidence he presents.  But he is not talking in objective terms - he is constantly drawing conclusions from evidence that any objective observer would say "okay, that is one possinle explination of several dozen explinations".  I am not saying Zahi is wrong.  Just that he seems very biased, and has motive for that bias.As for someones professor saying "unresolved", how nice.  Consensus can be unresolved. You can have a majority of people thinking one thing (the consensus), a minority thinking another, and the issue remaining unresolved.  As a counter to your "professor", I cite my own (who also happens to be the US archeological director in charge of Jordan archelogical affairs, and a personal friend of the King of Jordan).  He claims it is the overwhelming consensus that slaves built at least a few of the pyramids and temples in Egypt, and even then best evidence against that theory is only applicable to the Giza pyramids, and not the non-Giza pyramids.  Nobody has offered even a shred of evidence that the pyramids in the lower kingdom were built by anyone other than slaves, including Zahi.</blockquote>

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