Mahboob Alam

The Great Pyramid of Giza took approximately 20 years to build, according to most Egyptological estimates. That figure comes from a single historical source, a Greek historian writing over 2,000 years after the fact, cross-checked against physical evidence at the site itself and the two don’t always agree as neatly as popular articles suggest. Here’s … Read more

The Great Pyramid of Giza has stood for over 4,500 years, built from roughly 2.3 million limestone and granite blocks, some weighing as much as 80 tons. No cranes. No iron tools. No wheel, in the practical sense we’d recognize today. And yet ancient Egyptian engineers raised a structure so precise that its base is … Read more