The Great Pyramid was raised from an estimated 2.3 million stone blocks in roughly 20 years — which works out to setting a block, some weighing several tonnes, about once every few minutes of daylight for two decades

The Great Pyramid was raised from an estimated 2.3 million stone blocks in roughly 20 years — which works out to setting a block, some weighing several tonnes, about once every few minutes of daylight for two decades

The Great Pyramid of Giza is built from something like 2.3 million stone blocks, averaging about 2.5 tons each, and it took roughly 20 years to build. Divide one number by the other and the pace reads like a typo. A block set, then the next, then the next, every few minutes, for two decades without stopping.  It isn’t a curiosity about one heavy rock. It’s a claim about a whole human system holding a steady tempo, day after day, for longer than …