More tomfoolery at the Giza Pyramid

[swordfish]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17873984/

He thinks that no more than 4,000 people could have built the pyramid using these techniques, rather than the 100,000 or so assigned by past historians to the task of burying the pharaoh.

You can tell this guy is an engineer and not a construction worker. In my estimation it took more than 4,000 people just to move the stones to the site.

[Vegas]

Check out this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0

You may just change your mind about the number of people required.

[swordfish]

Once the 2+ million stones(with an average weight of 2.5 tons) were at the pyramid site it would only require putting them together. The problem I see is transporting the stone to the site. Some think that some of the stone could have originated as far as 500 miles away. From what I remember about the pyramid. The base is a square. The height of the pyramid is 2*(base/pi). The cross section of the pyramid is square all the way to the top within an unreasonably low margin of error.