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  Great Pyramid of Giza

  How did Fourth Dynasty Egypt, without iron tools, pulleys, or the wheel, quarry, transport, and stack roughly 2.3 million stone blocks — some weighing over 50 tonnes — into a structure aligned to true north within a fraction of a degree, and which exact ramp or lifting method got the largest blocks into place?

  c. 2600-2560 BCE (Fourth Dynasty, reign of Khufu) · Giza, Giza Governorate, EgyptAdded July 2026
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  Great Sphinx of Giza

  How did Old Kingdom Egyptians carve the largest monolithic statue of antiquity — a 73-metre human-headed lion — in place from a single limestone ridge, and why, four and a half thousand years later, can we still not name with certainty the pharaoh who ordered it?

  c. 2500 BCE (Fourth Dynasty, reign of Khafre; dating debated) · Giza Plateau, Giza Governorate, EgyptAdded July 2026
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  Valley Temple of Khafre

  How did Old Kingdom builders quarry, move, and raise local limestone core blocks weighing 100 tonnes and more — then sheath them in red granite cut to joints so tight, and so cleverly interlocked around the corners, that a knife blade will scarcely enter — using only copper tools, stone pounders, sledges, and earthen ramps?

  c. 2570 BCE (Fourth Dynasty, reign of Khafre) · Giza Plateau, Giza Governorate, EgyptAdded July 2026