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双语：考古学家发现埃及金字塔并非奴隶所建 http://edu.QQ.com　 2010年01月13日09:39 　?英语点津　　 我要评论(1)　 In this undated photo released by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities on Sunday, January 10, 2010, pottery and bones are seen in a tomb, in Giza, Egypt. Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a new set of tombs of the workers who built the great pyramids, shedding new light on how the laborers lived and ate more than 4,000 years ago, the antiquities department said Sunday. Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypts Supreme Council of Antiquities, says the tombs are significant because they show that the pyramids were not built by slaves, but rather free workers.(Agencies) New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves, as widely believed, Egypts chief archaeologist said on Sunday. Films and media have long depicted slaves toiling away in the desert to build themammothpyramids only to meet a miserable death at the end of their efforts. These tombs were built beside the kings pyramid, which indicates that these people were not by any means slaves, Zahi Hawass, the chief archaeologist heading the Egyptian?excavationteam, said in a statement. If they were slaves, they would not have been able to build their tombs beside their kings. He said the collection of workers tombs, some of which were found in the 1990s, were among the most significant finds in the 20th and 21st centuries. They belonged to workers who built the pyramids of?Khufuand?Khafre. Hawass had earlier found?graffition the walls from workers calling themselves friends of Khufu - another sign that they were not slaves. The tombs, on the Giza plateau on the western edge of Cairo, are 4,510 years old and lie at the entrance of a one-km (half mile)-long?necropolis. Hawass said evidence had been found showing that farmers in the Delta and Upper Egypt had sent 21?buffaloand 23 sheep to the plateau every day to feed the builders, believed to number around 10,000 - or about a tent