c. 2589 BC–c. 2504 BC
Worker mobilisation and housing at Giza
Población, migración y ciudades · Movilización laboral · Infraestructura de población · Egipto antiguo
Excavation of the worker settlement beside Giza documents bakeries, breweries, dormitories, and work crews. Estimates for the simultaneous workforce vary roughly from 20,000 to 40,000 people; they record mobilisation, housing, and provisioning, not the size of a permanent residential settlement.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- End
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
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Sources
- giza.fas.harvard.edu (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
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- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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