workforce required to build pyramids

From: Griffith (agri4042_at_delete.bigpond.net.au)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:29:02 GMT

Herodotus apparently gives the figure of 100,000 as the workforce
required to build one of the pyramids (the Great Pyramid I think). It
seems that most modern experts give a much lower figure. One website I
looked at gave a figure of 20,000. Is this a reasonable figure?

Nadina

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