Standing at the base of the pyramids at Giza it is hard to believe that any of these enormous monuments could have been built in one pharaoh's lifetime. Herodotus, the Greek historian who wrote in ...

The discovery of the workers’ village has also enabled archaeologists to debunk another of Herodotus’s somewhat fanciful claims: that 100,000 people built Khufu’s pyramid. In fact ...

Here is where things get interesting. One of the earliest historical records of how the pyramids were constructed was the writings of Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian. Herodotus is often ...

Humans had never built anything so large and striking. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the pyramid took 20 years to build and required the labor of 100,000 men (later estimates peg it ...