Was The Great Pyramid Built With Fake Limestone?

The Great Pyramid of Cheops (the Pharoah otherwise known as Khufu) was built at Giza, Egypt, some 4,500 years ago, and was, for thousands of years, the tallest man-made structure in the world at 481 feet high.

Most of the structure consists of limestone blocks, with some of the internal material being granite. The limestone blocks, more than 2 million of them, each weigh 2.5 tons and are all the same size, fitting together with a tolerance of less than 2 millimetres.

Given that the Pyramid took 20 years to build, that would mean that an average work schedule would have involved the addition of some 400 blocks a day.

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