Was the slaves that built the pyramids whipped?

well yes. Thousands of slaves toiled in the blazing Egyptian sun under the authority of hard whip wielding slave masters. The thong of the lash whistled through the air. Years of experience meant that an overseer rarely missed, it always found its target, as it coiled snake-like around the body of a naked slave. It left behind bruised, cruelly torn and often or not bleeding flesh.