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ARTICLES RELATED TO Great Pyramid of Giza - Alternative theories | | | |  Great Pyramid of Giza - Alternative theories: Encyclopedia II - Great Pyramid of Giza - Alternative theoriesIn common with many other monumental structures from antiquity, the Great Pyramid has over time been the subject of a great number of speculative or alternative publications, which put forward a variety of explanations about its origins, dating, construction and purpose. In support of their claims such accounts either rely upon novel reinterpretations of the available data from fields such as archaeology, history and astronomy, or appeal to [[mythology|mythological], mystical, numerological, astrological and othe ...
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| | | | Great Pyramid of Giza - Alternative theories: Encyclopedia II - Great Pyramid of Giza - Construction and internal layout At construction, the Great Pyramid was 280 Egyptian Old Royal Cubits tall (146.5 metres or 481 feet), but due to erosion and the theft of its topmost stone (the so-called pyramidion) its current height is 455.21 ft, approximately 138.75 m. As has been proven by papyrus documents, each base side measured in antiquity 440 (20.63 inch) royal cubits. Thus, the Great Pyramid base was originally 231 m on a side and covered approximately 53,000 square metres with an angle of 51.7 degrees—close to the idea for a stable pyramidal structur ...
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| | | | Great Pyramid of Giza - Alternative theories: Encyclopedia II - Great Pyramid of Giza - Labor and construction theories Many varied estimates have been made regarding the labor force needed to construct the Great Pyramid. Herodotus, the Greek historian in the 5th century BC, estimated that construction may have required the labor of 100,000 workers for 20 years. Recent evidence has been found that suggests the workforce was in fact paid, which would require accounting and bureaucratic skills of a high order. Polish architect Wieslaw Kozinski believed that it took as many as 25 men to transport a 1.5-ton stone block; based on this, he estimated the workforce t ...
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