Biblically, Hebrew slaves. Historically otherwise it appears they and various other captive slaves were held and used in Egypt.

Egyptian labor build the pyramids. Citizen workers. conscript and contract both, lived in worker villages located around the construction sites. There has been much modern excavation of the villages. Residences, bakeries, and such has been found.

I doubt it has enough thrust to move of its own at all - even on smooth Tarmac. I agree, @artician - poor soul.

I have seen my share of fundamentally flawed projects, though - my old man kept building a humongous "winch" of some sorts, which was supposed to be used to excavate soil for building the foundation for a house. Problem was, of course, that the darn thing (apart from being useless) was so big and heavy that we'd need an excavator anyway, just to move it around - and then it would be much better, safer and faster to use said excavator to do the actual digging.

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Go to Ostia Antica, the ancient (i.e. gladiator-era) port of Rome. It lay buried in accumulated silt for centuries but has relatively recently been excavated and is a beautiful and wonderful site to visit. If you go you'll see stone-paved streets that have never had a car drive on them, only gladiator-era horse-drawn wagons, and they have parallel ruts for the wheels of those wagons and aren't worn in the middle.

The docos I have seen on excavations of suddenly abandoned cities generally feature some discussion of whether there is evidence of political collapse (fire, looting) or natural catastrophe (climate records of drought, or evidence of earthquake etc.).

In some cases it is possible to determine, but sometimes we'll just never know.

Of course, it's always possible that a city happened to suffer a GFC style bank blow-up exactly as a natural catastrophe arrived, there's no rule that droughts can't happen in years of political or financial ineptitude.

This.
Objectivism is the political equivalent of Young Adult Fantasy.

“I’d been kind of an Ayn Rand guy before that,” he said. “And then you go to Asia and you see people who are genuinely poor and genuinely suffering and hadn’t gotten there by whining.” While on a break in Singapore, walking back to his hotel in the middle of the night, he stopped by an excavation site and “saw these shadows scuttling around in the hole. And then I realized the shadows were old women, working the night shift. Oh, I thought, Ayn Rand doesn’t quite account for this.”
-- George Saunders, on his time in Asia during the 90s.

When they excavate ancient cities and discover they were suddenly abandoned, there's always an assumption of some great natural catastrophe that caused it. I wonder how often it was collapsing economies or political hubris that were the real cause.

The amount of money they must spend inspecting the bridge and repairing it as necessary after each smash would have gone a long way to making it taller or excavating the road to improve clearance. Short sighted civil engineering!

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sweet, You may have caught on its called an excavator and not digger.

ACES ! good job.

I wake up, drive ten kilometers to a shop.

Generally get into one of two trucks that tow either a directional drill, or a trailer with a gas line reel and a mini-excavator.

Sometimes I drive a small bulldozer to tow a bigger gas line trencher. Sometimes I operate the Excavator(s) and I operate the directional drill whenever we do a job that requires it.

I generally enjoy my day.

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