Fascinating Details About the Great Pyramid

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Graham Hancock

Born 2 August 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hancock spent his formative years in India, where his father worked as a surgeon. Having returned to the UK, he graduated from Durham University in 1973, receiving a First Class Honours degree in sociology.

Hancock is a British writer and reporter. He specialises in unscientific theories involving ancient civilisations, stone monuments or megaliths, altered states of consciousness, ancient myths and astronomical and astrological data from the past.

One of the main themes running through many of his books is a posited global connection with a "mother culture" from which he believes all ancient historical civilisations sprang. An example of pseudoarchaeology, his work has neither been peer reviewed nor published in academic journals.

Source: Wikipedia

Here, Hancock talks about the Great Pyramid. The short version is less than 5 minutes long. Is a great analysis and explanation of facts and myths on the building of a true wonder of civilization being the "Great Pyramid". For more detail, the long version is just over 11 minutes long.

Short version:

Long Version:

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The Great Pyramid of Cheops contains an enigma that no historian or archaeologist likes to talk about. All archaeologists agree that the structure of the pyramid is composed of some 2,400,000 rock blocks weighing between 2 and 70 tonnes. Each of these rock blocks was positioned with absolute precision, as the pyramid has a margin of error of only 1 centimetre at the base, and only 1 degree of alignment to the north. A similar result can only be achieved today with laser-guided construction systems.
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But it is not the precision with which the Great Pyramid was built that is impressive. Nor do we want to go into how the blocks were transported. Instead, the 'hundred-gun question' is another: how long did it take them? Why is this 'the question of all questions' to be asked?
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Assuming that Egyptian workers managed to cut, transport and place 1 block a day, it would have taken exactly (2,400,000 : 365) years to build the Great Pyramid, i.e. 6,575 years to finish it. This means that the pyramid, given for completion in about 2,500 B.C., would have been started in at least 9,000 B.C. But according to archaeologists, the Great Pyramid was built in only 10 years around 2,500 B.C. What does this statement imply?
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To be built in about 10 years, as official archaeology teaches, calculating that work was only done in daylight and thus 10 hours a day, each block of the pyramid must have been cut, transported and placed at the rate of minus 1 every minute, i.e. one every 60 seconds or so. (1 block x 60 minutes x 10 hours x 365 days x 10 years) = 2,190,000. Can you imagine a group of workers with tools as soft as copper, who do not even know the wheel in that time, cutting blocks from 2 to 70 tonnes, transporting them on logs via ramps and placing 1 every minute without interruption, every day, every week, every month, every year, for 10 years? I honestly have some difficulty.
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The Great Pyramid was certainly built by people who lived in the place where it was found. But it is quite evident that the time it was built, and perhaps also the people who built it, are probably not what many people think.
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The article continues in the book:
"HOMO RELOADED - The hidden history of the last 75,000 years"