Now that I have seen the Pyramids and actually have gone inside a few of them, I cannot figure out how they accomplished such a feat. I know they talk about ramps and log rollers, but the size of these stones is nothing to sneeze at. One of the pyramids had a black stone crypt placed inside the internal gallery. The local guide said that the black stone was one solid piece of black granite that weighed 6 tons. So just the idea of getting that big stone block into the pyramid was probably a marvel in project planning. These designers and planners could teach us a lot about project management. One of the things that my tour guide informed me was that the workers on the pyramids took place during the flooding times of the Nile River. The flooding usually takes place during Summer and early Fall. The water level helped them get some of the workers and the materials to the site. That is one of the reasons that the Great Pyramid in Giza took 20 years to build.
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