![]() ![]() ![]() Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Model and Ruins). The inside of the pyramid houses the King’s Chamber, the Queen’s Chamber, the Grand Gallery, and the “Big Void.” A tunnel known as the “Robber’s Tunnel” created around 820 CE leads into the pyramid. A few of the casing stones can still be seen on the pyramid to this day. Later, in the 19th century, the Ottoman governor of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, had more casing stones removed to construct the Alabaster Mosque in Cairo. After the earthquake, many of the stones were used by Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan to build mosques and fortresses. Tora was an ancient mining town with the finest and whitest limestone throughout ancient Egypt.Īn estimated 5.5 million metric tons of limestone was used for the Great Pyramid, and each stone had a slanted face. The text disclosed the limestone transportation work during several months from Tora to Giza, with two or three trips every ten days by around 40 boatmen who worked under Merer. In 2013, a collection of papyrus logbooks known as “The Diary of Merer” was discovered in a cave by a French mission led by Pierre Tallet of Paris-Sorbonne University. Limestone Casing Stone in the British Museum. However, it is estimated that around 4,000 workers quarried, hauled, and set the stone. While mathematician Kurt Mendelssohn suggested 50,000 men, Ludwig Borchardt and Louis Croon believed the number to be 36,000. The precise number of workers who worked on the pyramid is not known. They also received ten loaves of bread and a jug of beer each day for their work. Unlike what the Greeks thought, evidence suggests that the pyramid was built using paid laborers who would work three- to four-month shifts in lieu of taxes. ![]() According to French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, if modern techniques were to be used to build the pyramid, it would cost an estimated $5 billion and require a workforce of 1,500 to 2,000. He called it “Akhet-Khufu” which means the “Horizon of Khufu.” The pyramid is estimated to weigh 5.9 million metric tons and has a volume of 2.5 million cubic meters (88 million cubic feet). Khufu chose to have the pyramid built on the plateau of Giza so that it would be visible far and wide. ![]()
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