# Hawass 2004: The Tombs of the Pyramid Builders: The Tomb of the Artisan Petety and His Curse

> Zahi Hawass, 2004. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for the cemetery and the titles of the workers.

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# The Tombs of the Pyramid Builders: The Tomb of the Artisan Petety and His Curse

Zahi Hawass, 2004. _Egypt, Israel, and the Ancient Mediterranean World (Brill)_.

The workers' cemetery found in 1990 west of the Heit el-Ghurab settlement: mudbrick tombs of overseers and workers with titles, and skeletons with healed injuries.

**How the Great Pyramid was built** Chapterdoi: **[10.1163/9789047413691_003](https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047413691_003)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

Cited for the cemetery and the titles of the workers.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[The pyramid was built by slave labour under compulsion, as Herodotus implied.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-pyramid/answers/ANS0CSMP0M61JC6/the-pyramid-was-built-by-slave-labour-under-compulsion-as)

Answer

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[Tombs of the pyramid builders, including the tomb of Petety](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-pyramid/artifacts/ART0CSMPA4W7BJR/tombs-of-the-pyramid-builders-including-the-tomb-of-petety)

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[The builders' cemetery holds tombs with overseers' titles and skeletons with treated injuries.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-pyramid/evidence/EVD0CSMP04J0TDH/the-builders-cemetery-holds-tombs-with-overseers-titles-and)

Evidence

EVD

[The workers' cemetery shows formal tombs, titles and healed fractures.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-pyramid/evidence/EVD0CSMP0W0057S/the-workers-cemetery-shows-formal-tombs-titles-and-healed)

Evidence

EVD

[Hawass finds the builders' cemetery](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-pyramid/events/EVT0CSMNS9T1NDT/hawass-finds-the-builders-cemetery)

EVT

[Zahi Hawass](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-pyramid/people/FIG0CSMNQK47943/zahi-hawass)

FIG

[How the Great Pyramid was built](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-pyramid)

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

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Hawass, Z. (2004). The Tombs of the Pyramid Builders: The Tomb of the Artisan Petety and His Curse. Egypt, Israel, and the Ancient Mediterranean World (Brill). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047413691_003
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047413691_003)

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