The Great Pyramid of Giza
Ancient limestone tomb of stacked blocks, once the tallest structure ever built by humans.
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This guide to the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo centers on a diary kept around 2600 BC by a middle manager named Merer, a dry logbook of shifts and rations that archaeologists pulled from a Red Sea cave in 2013. It follows Merer's crew of forty boatmen hauling limestone from the Tura quarries up the Nile to Giza under his boss Ankh-haf, the king's own half brother running logistics for the build. Listen for the phrase Merer uses for where all that stone was headed.
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