When researchers examined skeletons buried in present-day Sudan, they found evidence that some had belonged to workers who performed hard labor ...

"Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs, once thought to be the final resting place of the most elite, may have also included low-status high-labor staff," archaeologists wrote in a paper ...

By examining these changes, researchers can gauge the intensity and kinds of physical work ... from pyramid and chapel tombs, suggesting engagement in repetitive strenuous labor.

For years, historians believed that pyramid burials in ancient Egypt ... The condition of their bones pointed to intense manual labor, such as construction work or farming—an unlikely background ...