Graham Hancock on egypt: what the evidence says · JRE #2136
SUBJECT: EGYPT
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Now I give you some statistics. It's 481.39 feet high originally. It's a bit lower today. It lost some 30 feet from its top in an earthquake. Footprint of the base 13.1 acres, weight 6 million tons, 2.3
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
The core figures match mainstream Egyptological consensus: the Great Pyramid originally stood about 481 feet (146.6 m) high, was built from roughly 2.3 million stone blocks, and its base covers approximately 13 acres. Mass estimates cluster around 5.75 to 6 million tons, so the 6 million figure is at the upper end of the accepted range. The pyramid is now about 450 feet tall, having lost roughly 30 feet from its peak. The one imprecise point is attributing that loss to an earthquake: the height was reduced mainly because the smooth outer casing stones and the pyramidion were stripped away over centuries (a 1303 earthquake loosened casing stones that were then carted off to build in Cairo), not from a single earthquake toppling the top. Overall the statistics are sound with that caveat.