Puzzle of the Pyramids

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For more than 4,000 years, the Great Pyramid built as a tomb for King Khufu of Egypt was the I tallest structure in the world. The Eiffel Tower finally surpassed it in 1889, but the tower builders had iron and cranes, steam-powered machinery and great wheeled carts. The ancient Egyptians had none of those. How did they cut and move millions of massive stone blocks? How did they place them so perfectly? Strangely enough, although the Egyptians loved to record things, they left nothing to answer such questions-except the pyramids themselves.

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