:17:00
Absolutely.
:17:02
You just said so yourself.
:17:04
It wasn't the gods who built
:17:06
these great monuments.
:17:07
It was people.
:17:09
Thousands and thousands of people.
:17:20
Imagine being one of
these people
:17:22
Iiving in a tiny village
:17:24
more than 4,000 years ago.
:17:26
Life would be pretty much
:17:28
the same day in
and day out-farming,
:17:30
herding cattle
fishing in the Nile.
:17:35
Then one day,
:17:37
you're selected to journey
:17:38
by boat down the Nile.
:17:41
You're now part of
:17:42
the great national project
:17:43
to build the pharaon's tomb.
:17:47
But you have no idea
what kind of tomb!
:17:51
And then you see a monument
:17:55
to the sun to life eternal.
:18:18
How did they move such heavy
:18:20
stones to such great heights?
:18:23
There are many theories,
:18:24
but they probably pulled
:18:25
the blocks up mud-slickened ramps
:18:28
raising the ramps
as the pyramid grew.
:18:31
Masons then set the stones
:18:32
with such precision a postcard
:18:34
couldn't fit between them.
:18:42
To create the
Great Pyramid of Khufu,
:18:45
it took over 20 years...
:18:47
more than two million
stone blocks...
:18:50
and some 20,000 people.
:18:53
And they might have been slaves,
:18:55
but now we think
:18:56
they were mostly peasant farmers
:18:58
recruited to work here
part of the year.