Slaves in Ancient Egypt worked for thousands of years on the pyramids but they weren't all from Egypt they were mostly foreign slaves. A slave is defined as "One bound in servitude as the property of a person or household. Slaves got worked so hard at points that they got so dehydrated from the dessert heat and died from it and it burned it from inside out. they worked on the sphinx for hundreds of years and they worked till they couldn't breath. The Slaves were the bottom of the Social Order, they mostly slaved for the Pharaoh. They had invented slave markets, so that the slaves didn't have to shop where the other Ancient Egyptians did. Many slaves were foreigners captured during wartime. Female and child slaves worked in wealthy households. Male slaves worked as laborers on farms or in households.