>For the Great Pyramid of Khufu alone, 2,500,000 limestone blocks with an average weight of 2.5 tonnes, were hauled up into position. One of the mathematicians accompanying Napoleon on his expedition to Egypt in 1798 calculated that the stones of the three pyramids of Giza could enclose France within a wall 3 metres high.
source: Page 47 - Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient
Mediterranean, Third Edition (Oxford University Press)
source: Page 47 - Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient
Mediterranean, Third Edition (Oxford University Press)
