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How the Great Pyramid Was Actually Built
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Forget what you heard. The Great Pyramid was not built by slaves.
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It took about twenty thousand paid workers, who lived in a town right beside it.
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They cut over two million blocks, some heavier than a loaded truck.
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Granite came eight hundred kilometers down the Nile by boat.
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Archaeologists even found a crew boss's logbook, written forty five hundred years ago.
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Not slaves. A nation, working in shifts, for twenty years.
