The Great Pyramid of Giza...Ugg!

kdj • 16 October 2011 at 11:56 AM

Ok, so for social studies I'm doing a 3-5min speech on the great pyramid of giza. I was thinking about (somewhere in the speech) telling them how many people it took to build the great pyramid of giza. However, I went to Wikipedia, and this is what I get:
Many alternative, often contradictory, theories have been proposed regarding the pyramid's construction techniques.[22] Many disagree on whether the blocks were dragged, lifted, or even rolled into place. The Greeks believed that slave labour was used, but modern discoveries made at nearby worker's camps associated with construction at Giza suggest it was built instead by tens of thousands of skilled workers. Verner posited that the labor was organized into a hierarchy, consisting of two gangs of 100,000 men, divided into five zaa or phyle of 20,000 men each, which may have been further divided according to the skills of the workers.[23]

One mystery of the pyramid's construction is its planning. John Romer suggests that they used the same method that had been used for earlier and later constructions, laying out parts of the plan on the ground at a 1 to 1 scale. He writes that "such a working diagram would also serve to generate the architecture of the pyramid with precision unmatched by any other means."[24] He also argues for a 14 year time span for its construction.[25]

(I was'nt expecting it to be so long...) I STILL DON'T GET IT! x'D So how many people did it take to build it?!

rosey77 • 16 October 2011 at 11:58 AM

Hmm... I think 200,000.

lola622f • 16 October 2011 at 11:58 AM

IDK

kdj • 16 October 2011 at 12:00 PM

UGGGG! WIKIPEDIA IS USELESS! It's too smart for it's own good! x'D
Lolz. 😸

balletninja • 16 October 2011 at 12:02 PM

It was built from the top down.

And you know how the top is missing?

Oh plus it is really old. Older than most scientists thought!

kdj • 16 October 2011 at 12:04 PM

No clue. 😃
See, I need to know what the heck WIKIPEDIA IS TRYING TO SAY!

lizardfeather • 16 October 2011 at 12:11 PM

@kdj Well do you have the URL? Those leeeetle numbers above the words are sources sited so you might be able to go to another website that has it more clearly stated 😸

BUt from what's posted here I'm thinking its 200,000. But if you're not sure, you can always say, ROUGHLY 200,000 because even if it's inaccurate you have the buffer of the words 😸

zafeyry • 17 October 2011 at 9:36 PM

My advice is don't use Wikipedia for projects.