Anyone who's ever been to Sunday school or heard the story of Moses has probably heard

that Egypt's great pyramids and other works were built by armies of Jewish slaves.

Many of us have heard this so many times that we don't doubt it in the slightest.

How would you feel if that turned out to be completely false but moreover that there

were never Jewish slaves in ancient Egypt at all?

It's coming up next, Unskeptoid.

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Did Jewish slaves build the pyramids?

The stories we hear in Sunday school form the basis for the popular belief that Jewish slaves were forced to build the pyramids in Egypt.

But they were saved when they left Egypt in a mass exodus.

That's the story I was raised to believe and it's what's been repeated innumerable times by Hollywood.

In 1956, Charlton Heston as Moses went head-to-head with Yule Brenner as Pharaoh Ramsey's the second in the Ten Commandments,

having been placed into the Nile in a basket as a baby to escape death by Ramsey's edict that all newborn Hebrew sons be killed.

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