According to the Greek historian Herodotus (c.450BC) 100,000 slaves toiled in the hot sun for 20 years to build the great pyramid of king Khufu. Modern estimates put the number at about 10,000 to 30,000.
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it doesnt. they actually stopped building pyramids after the old kingdom because it wasted so many resources.
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Many of the pyramids were built in the valley of the kings. West of the bank of the nile. West where the sun set.
Because we today can not even understand 100% how they were built, especially since they were built in a time where human technology was so limited that cultures from around the world had no contact with each other. That being said pyramids are found to have been built by different civilizations that were on separate continents. This leads people to ask the question, Why would two completely different civilizations who had never made contact with each other be building these megalithic structures and how are they doing this and how are they able to line them up with certain stars such as Orions belt. It's said that the pyramid of Giza was built in 22 years, the math was that in order to achieve that each stone would have be cut and put into place every nine seconds. There are so many reasons
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