These huge structures, like the famous Pyramid of Khufu on the Giza Plateau, were built using massive limestone blocks. The incredible scale and precision involved still have folks scratching ...

More than 2,300,000 limestone and granite blocks were pushed, pulled, and dragged into place on the Great Pyramid. The average weight of a block is about 2.3 metric tons (2.5 tons). How much is that?

And then you could come up with very conservative estimates as to the number of men it would take to pull an average size block the distance from the quarry, which we know, to the pyramid.

In this guest article, investigative historian, author and journalist Tony McMahon explores some of the more eccentric ...

Walsh pointed out uncanny mathematical alignments in the pyramid: its height multiplied ... With 70-ton boulders among its 2 million blocks, Walsh claimed it’s “impossible” for Egyptians ...

Scribes set about calculating the number of blocks that would be required to build a pyramid with the selected gradient—in the case of Khufu, the angle of the sides with the ground is 52 degrees ...

A study proposes that ancient Egyptians used nearby canals to power hydraulic lifts, raising heavy stone blocks to construct the Step Pyramid—revolutionizing our understanding of ancient ...

Built over four-and-a-half thousand years ago, the pyramid is the tomb of the Pharaoh Khufu. You can pass through the solid stone blocks that make up the Pyramid’s core to explore its hidden ...