One accepted theory about how did ancient Egyptians move the Great Pyramid blocks is that they used water to moist the sand in front of a sleigh carrying the stone. They pulled the stones on sand from the Nile river to the current location. In this painting they depict 172 people pulling with ropes a colossal statue on a sleigh.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is estimated to have been built with around 2.3 million stone blocks. These blocks were cut from limestone and granite, and some of the largest blocks used, weigh over 80 tons. Herodotus stated the Pyramid of Khufu construction took twenty years. If the construction of the Great Pyramid took 20 years, and there were 2.3 million blocks used, we can estimate the average number of blocks placed per day : With 365 days in a year, 20 years would equal 20 x 365 = 7,300 days. Therefore, the average number of blocks placed per day would be 2.3 million blocks / 7,300 days = approximately 315 blocks per day. So
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