Posted by:
baura
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Date: August 26, 2016 07:13PM
My guess is that both the 100,000 men and the 20 years are a bit
high. But one thing is clear. The Egyptians knew how to
organize. There are about 2.3 million blocks in the Great
Pyramid. If you divide Khufu's 22 years by 2.3 million blocks,
you end up with just slightly over 5 minutes per block. And
this is working around the clock 24/7. That's 5 minutes to
quarry a 2-3 TON block, transport it to the site, put it in
place and finish it. Clearly they had MANY blocks in process at
any one time.
Oh, and did I mention that this is long before the iron age?
They had to do this all without iron or steel tools.
Engineer Gerard C. A. Fonte has studied the matter and come up
with a way that 10,000 workers could have built it in a year.
Or 4000 workers in 4 to 6 years.
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Great-Pyramid-Year-Engineers/dp/0875865216My guess is that this is, as with all engineering schedules,
overly optimistic.