 And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil lasted ten years on the road which they constructed...  The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt - Page 138by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1890 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herodotus - 1837 - 450 pages
...range called the Libyan mountain. They were compelled to labour in this manner by one hundred thousand at a time, each party during three months: the time during which the people were thus ground down'08, lasted ten years on the road which they constructed for the conveyance of the stones... | |
 | Herodotus - 1846 - 426 pages
...range called the Libyan mountain. They were compelled to labour in this manner by one hundred thousand at a time, each party during three months: the time during which the people were thus ground down808, lasted ten years on the road which they constructed for the conveyance of the stones;... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...others he ' ordered to receive the stones when transported in vessels across '(the river, and to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked...which the people ' were thus harassed by toil lasted 10 years on the road which they ' constructed, along which they drew the stones, a work, in my ' opinion,... | |
 | S. H. Ford - 1996 - 222 pages
...to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan ; and they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The...they drew the stones, a work, in my opinion, not much leaa than the pyramid ; for its length is five stades, and its width ten orgyse, and its height where... | |
 | Yosef Ben-Jochannan - 1989 - 482 pages
...A HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN AT A TIME, EACH PARTY DURING THREE MONTHS PERIOD. THE TIME DURING WHICH THEY WERE THUS HARASSED BY TOIL, LASTED TEN YEARS ON THE ROAD WHICH THEY CONSTRUCTED. TWENTY YEARS WERE SPENT ERRECTING THE PYRAMID ITSELF." Sketches, drawings, pictures, etc. of Pharaoh... | |
 | 626 pages
...Nile, others he ordered to receive the stones when transported in vessels across the river, and to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked...constructed, along which they drew the stones, a work, in my The Pyramid of Khufu (Chedps) at Gizah and the Sphinx. The "Step Pyramid" built by Tcheser, a king... | |
 | Charles Edward Brown - 1926 - 626 pages
...building of the Great Pyramid and worked to the number of 100,000 men at a time, each party working for three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil lasted ten years in building a road over which the rock could be drawn for the pyramid. Twenty years were spent in erecting... | |
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