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Did the Hebrew slaves build the pyramids?

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Discover Magazine:
The best evidence suggests that pyramid workers were locals who were paid for their services and ate extremely well. We know this because archaeologists have found their tombs and other signs of the lives they lived. ...
So why do so many people think the Egyptian pyramids were built by slaves? The Greek historian Herodotus seems to have been the first to suggest that was the case. Herodotus has sometimes been called the “father of history.” Other times he's been dubbed the “father of lies.” He claimed to have toured Egypt and wrote that the pyramids were built by slaves. But Herodotus actually lived thousands of years after the fact.
Another obvious origin of the slave idea comes from the longstanding Judeo-Christian narrative that the Jews were enslaved in Egypt, as conveyed by the story of Moses in the book of Exodus.

Wiki:
The allegation that Israelite slaves built the pyramids was in fact made by Jewish historian Josephus in his book Antiquities of the Jews, writing that Egyptian taskmasters "set them also to build pyramids."[17]

According to The End of the Pyramid Era, The last of the great pyramid builders was Pepy II (2278-2184 BC), According to Biblehub, Jacob and family moved to Egypt in 1875 BC, some 3 centuries later.

It is unlikely that the Hebrew slaves built any of the great pyramids.