But we're not talking about just picking up a block and lobbing it anywhere. We're talking about building an architectural masterpiece. Nothing we've built to this day compares to it.
This guy is whooshing, right?
The number of documentaries that show how the pyramids were likely constructed are so numerous that to even challenge the basic concept is ridiculous.
I'm just going off memory of course, but if we're just talking about Egyptian pyramids, it's layers of blocks laid on top of one another, with the chambers and shafts shaped into the blocks as they're set. The whole thing is held together by gravity and supported by the massive base. For all their size, it is very straightforward.
Ancient civilisations built them because if you wanted to build big that's all their technology allowed for - sliding blocks into place and stacking them on top of one another. There are no doubt details, but it's not like you're constructing a huge, self supporting tower, with complicated interiors and delicate carvings, like with the Anglican Cathedral.
20 years might seem a bit short I'll admit, but if conditions are right with no setbacks and good planning I imagine it is quite possible for a King, with an endless supply of workers and money, to get it done. If there's a bad harvest or a drought then maybe it stretches to 30 years.
