# The Egyptian logos reports pyramid and canal labour as mass unfree or corvée work

Date: 440

## The fact

The Egyptian logos reports pyramid-building as long labour with rations and years attached, and mentions canal work. The instrument is that labour-story as inquiry, not a modern engineering paper. Figures are priest-claims as he labels them. Herodotus's documented role is: He reports priests' figures for radish-and-onion rations and years of building. He did not run a gang. Medium on the numbers.

## Context

Cheops and unnamed kings are the named commissioners in the logos. Sharing the story with priests he cites is required. Tribute-lists of Darius are a Persian, different file. Later tourism is not 440. The setting of The Egyptian logos reports pyramid and canal labour as mass unfree or corvée work is the public file around -0440-09-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [labour-market-tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 2 pyramids neighbourhood (later carrier) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=2 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent locator: Britannica — Herodotus, Egypt / pyramids neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 2 pyramids neighbourhood (later carrier) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=2; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent carrier: Britannica — Herodotus, Egypt / pyramids neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories Book 2 pyramids neighbourhood (later carrier) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=2; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

Worsening path from The Egyptian logos reports pyramid and canal labour as mass unfree or corvée work on -0440-09-01. A public story of mass building labour is a labour-extraction path. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The Egyptian logos reports pyramid and canal labour as mass unfree or corvée work under -0440-09-01 for Herodotus. Established: a sourced public record of The Egyptian logos reports pyramid and canal labour as mass unfree or corvée work under -0440-09-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not mint a unique worker census. Do not twin with satrapal tribute as the same list. Mixed effects of The Egyptian logos reports pyramid and canal labour as mass unfree or corvée work are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is labour-market-tightness. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of The Egyptian logos reports pyramid and canal labour as mass unfree or corvée work. Naming Herodotus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0440-09-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Herodotus: https://factrail.ai/people/herodotus

## Drivers

- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=2
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herodotus-Greek-historian

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/he-egypt-corvee