The Egyptian Pyramids are one of the wonders of the world. Hollywood films and the bible have led people to believe that slaves built the pyramids for the Egyptian Pharaohs. According to texts such as Joyce Tyldesley’s Egypt’s Golden Empire it was ordinary Egyptians, not slaves, who built the Pyramids as part of a national building project. Workers built them out of reverence for their Pharaoh and the many gods they worshipped.