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What was it like to be a servant in ancient Egypt? Not a scribe. Not a priest. Just one of the invisible laborers who scrubbed floors with broken brooms, hauled offerings through the heat, and died nameless beneath the very monuments they built.This is not the Egypt you’ll find in textbooks or museums. This is the view from the bottom — sunburned, overworked, and easily replaced. Across fifteen sections, we walk slowly through a life of endless toil, forgotten death, and the kind of civilization no one mourns from the servant’s quarters.Lie back. Close your eyes. And prepare for a quiet, uncelebrated descent into the parts of history we usually step over.