The great pyramid was built by hand. It has something like 2.5 million stones. About 3 tons each, extracted, carved, and transported by hand. Whatever your own task, you can probably do it. One item at a time.
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One note. Pyramids were likely not built by slaves. That's a modern cliche with no real archaeological backing. https://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html … But it's interesting that Europeans looking at the Pyramids in proto-archaeological times were like, "eh, probably built by slaves"
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"The Pyramid Code" is an exceptional docuseries on this sort of context, a venture through many of the phenoma of the time, including hieroglyphs and translations
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There is a probability that the great pyramids were built much earlier. Other pyramids, though you cannot carbon date rock, have been determined to be around 10,000 or more years back. google pyramid under water. dating the coral on it
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how the pyramids built Egypt
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Herodote had good reason to believe they'd been built by slaves, that's how things were done in his society.
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Fascinating stuff. Still, must have been good for Pharaoh Khufu to know that whatever the task he didn't need to lift a finger
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They were not slaves because they ate prime rib?
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