Ancient Egyptians moved more than 170,000 tons of limestone to construct the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Archaeologists have long puzzled over just how they accomplished that feat, but a papyrus rolls found by a French-Egyptian team may hold the answer. Researcher Pierre Tallet has spent the past four years deciphering the papyrus, and recently said in the Channel 4 documentary Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence, "Since the very day of the...
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