Could there be a ‘vast underground city’ beneath the Pyramids of Giza? Egypt’s desert holds many secrets, even after ...

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?

On average, the over two million blocks of stone used to build Khufu's pyramid weigh 2.5 tons, and the heaviest blocks, used as the ceiling of Khufu's burial chamber, weigh in at an estimated nine ...

In November 2024, a troubling video from the Great Pyramid of Giza surfaced online. The video, showing construction workers ...

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 ...

Once the base was laid out, they could begin building. The Great Pyramid is made up from more than 200 horizontal layers of limestone blocks. The area of each layer is slightly less than the one ...