What if I wanted to build a Great Pyramid today?
Let’s say that you want to create a theme park called Egypt World, complete with an authentic reconstruction of the Egypt’s Great Pyramid as the centerpiece for your park. What would you have to do, and would modern technology make the project any easier? If you wanted to be completely authentic about it, you would do the whole project with people-power. It’s believed the great pyramid was built with the labor of 5,000, 20,000 or 100,000 people (depending on which expert is doing the estimate) over the course of 20 years or so. No matter how you slice it, that’s a lot of person-years of effort. Even if you paid your workers minimum wage, just the labor of the project would cost billions of dollars. The Great Pyramid is also amazing from a materials s
