: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.
:19:02
With their help,
:19:03
the early pharaons built
more than a hundred
:19:05
pyramids-80 of which survive today.
:19:30
But what about the kings
who came later?
:19:33
You told me King Tutankhamon
:19:34
wasn't buried in a pyramid?
:19:36
No, he wasn't.
:19:37
They stopped building them.
:19:39
And for good reason.
:19:45
There were robbers who cared far
:19:48
more about heaps of gold
:19:49
than an eternal j ourney.
:19:53
The pyramids,
to these thieves,
:19:55
were like enormous
billboards saying,
:19:57
"We've buried the king in here