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So playing with numbers...the great pyramid is estimated to weigh 6 million tons...that means we need a delivery rate of 34 tons each hour every hour for 20 years.
If you have them working only half the day or 12 hours that is 68 ton each hour of the work day...when you include weekends whatever if nothing else we can conclude they were a busy little bunch...in things I read in the link provided by Julian where they talked about the 10,000 big village they said that these workers could build a pyramid in 30 years...that 10 more years I have not heard about.
The numbers of workers is hard to pin down..reference to the worker village at 10,000 but elsewhere is mentioned far greater numbers.
So how many men in a per ton per hour do we need...one must be able to come up with a simple sum...anyways it looks as though I will have to study much more to come up with a variety of propositions.
Let's work out what one would cost to build today...easy cost per ton laid...say $2 a kilo for starters...how much I wonder.
Alex
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