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Originally Posted by richag77
I've seen many documentaries and books, youtube vids etc trying to explain the mystery of the building of, in particular, the Pyramid of Giza. They all skirt around the main problem which is how did the Egyptians place all of the 2.5 million blocks in position in the twenty years that it took to construct it.
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The ancient Egyptian pharaohs ruled over foreign slaves as well as their own Egyptian conscripts. 20 years could well be the time it took for the Pharaoh, whereas the builders may have took 50, 60, or even 99 years.
Gods unto themselves, they would have written whatever they wished into their papyrus scrolls.