The Great Pyramid is situated in Giza. It was built around two and a half thousands years before Christ as a tomb for pharaoh Khufu. Egyptologists say, that it was build over 10 to 20 years period. Builders of the pyramid used approximately 2,300.000 stone blocks weighting from 2 to 50 tons. By doing simple maths we get one stone block added to the construction every five minutes. That's impressive taking into account, that (probably not all) blocks match each other so precisely, that you cannot put anything between two. You also won't find any similar ones.
Second fun fact about The Great Pyramid applies to the number of its side walls. Many people think there are four while, in fact, each side wall is sunken a little bit. It is clearly visible during sunrise on spring and autumn equinox. You can observe it on attached images.
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Interesting as usual.
OdpowiedzUsuńHave the scientists worked out how the huge, heavy blocks of stone were moved up the pyramid? It would've been impossible to use human muscle power alone, I guess, so there must have been some clever engineering tricks they used.
Builders may have been using ramp and it's the most common idea, but opinions vary within its structure. My next post will probably be about different concepts of building pyramids.
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