關于埃及的神秘文化你不知道的10件事

6. Egyptian workers were known to organize labor strikes.
古埃及工人會組織罷工

Even though they regarded the pharaoh as a kind of living god, Egyptian workers were not afraid to protest for better working conditions.
在古埃及，盡管法老是工人們心中永活的神，但工人并不會因為害怕觸犯法老而停止對工作環境的追求。

The most famous example came in the 12th century B.C. during the reign of the New Kingdom pharaoh Ramses III. When laborers engaged in building the royal necropolis at Deir el-Medina did not receive their usual payment of grain, they organized one of the first recorded strikes in history.
最好的例證莫過于公元前12世紀的大罷工，當時正值拉美西斯三世上位期間，工人們在修建位于德爾麥迪娜（Deir el-Medina）的皇家陵墓時，因未能得到與往常等量的糧食作為報酬，他們憤而組織了一起史無前例的罷工運動。

The protest took the form of a sit-in: The workers simply entered nearby mortuary temples and refused to leave until their grievances were heard. The gamble worked, and the laborers were eventually given their overdue rations.
罷工的工人不工作，只是紛紛走進附近的祭廟，在里面打坐，并且拒絕離開，除非他們不公待遇的申訴得以受理。最終，工人們如愿得到了自己被克扣的糧食。在這場爭取權利的賭注中，他們贏了。