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Comment by ncmncm

6 years ago

Pyramid at Giza, 20 years -- laying one 2.5-ton stone block every 2 minutes, of every daylight hour, for the entire period. Some people say 10 years, one per minute. Or, construction for half of each of 20 years, one per minute.

You could imagine getting pretty good at it, five years in.

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