OK, so how do we know this—you come to a block of stone in the relieving chambers above the Great Pyramid. And first of all you see this cartouche of a King and then some scrawls all in red ...

Finding Merer’s diary in 2013, thanks to Pierre Tallet, added more detail about stone-moving logistics back then. Constructing these jaw-dropping pyramids took a huge workforce made up of ...

On average, the over two million blocks of stone used to build Khufu's pyramid weigh 2.5 tons, and the heaviest blocks, used as the ceiling of Khufu's burial chamber, weigh in at an estimated nine ...

each starting at a specific point before coming together where those sections would be joined with a bonding stone. This lends credence to the theory that the pyramid was constructed layer by ...

Today, as an archaeologist, he values every inch of the pyramids in his mission to preserve their unique stone construction. For the past decade Kawae has been recording the sites in precise detail.