GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA

 

After posting the piece about Stonehenge and the missing circle I spotted this 

Close-up of the Great Pyramid of Giza

The volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza is 2,583,283 cubic meters. To build Giza’s great pyramid, the ancient builders used around 2.3 million stones weighing, on average, 3 tons. The Great Pyramid of Giza was the most accurately aligned structure on the planet’s surface, facing true north with only 3/60th of a degree of error.

The four faces of the Great Pyramid are slightly concave, making it the only pyramid built this way. Despite what you may think about this ancient structure, the Great Pyramid of Khufu is an eight-sided figure, not a four-sided figure. Each of the pyramid’s four side are evenly split from base to tip by very subtle concave indentations

Pyramid of Khafre

View of the Pyramid of Khafre, seen from atop of the Pyramid of Khufu.

Pyramid of Khufu

View of the entrance of the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza.

Quite how it is 'facing' true north when it has "eight sides" is a moot point but certainly the construction is astonishing if it took great teams of men (slaves?) to move three ton blocks into place I would like to know how that was done. Wonder what the death rate was like?