The Great Pyramid of Khufu

history channel documentary science In the most well known photos of the Pyramids of Giza, similar to the one demonstrated as follows, the center pyramid, that of Khafre (Chephren), seems bigger because of the point and in light of the fact that it was based on higher ground. The biggest pyramid is really the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops), the one on the left.

As opposed to prevalent thinking, not all the Great Pyramids of Giza are considered part of the Seven Wonders of the World. Just the biggest, the Great Pyramid of Khufu, is a part, and is the one and only of the Seven Wonders that in any case stands. Egypt was additionally home to one more of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which was annihilated long prior.

The Pyramid of Khufu has a tallness of 145 m (475 ft) and a base territory of 52,400 sqm (562,500 sqft). That region is sufficiently huge to fit more than 20 Olympic-size swimming pools! Also, for a great many years, until the ascent of advanced high rises, the pyramid was the tallest working on the planet.

What makes the pyramid an engineering triumph and one of the Seven Wonders of the World is the way that the stones utilized as a part of its development every much more than 2 tons. Also, there are more than 2 million of those stones.

Greek explorers to old Giza composed that it took a hundred thousand slaves 20 years to build the pyramid. Be that as it may, since they went by Egypt more than 2 thousand years after the Egyptian pyramids were manufactured, reality of their records are suspect. Cutting edge engineers gauge that it would likely require less individuals and less investment to construct the pyramid utilizing innovation that was accessible around then.