1201 AM · ≈ 2560 BCE · world history
The Egyptian Pyramids
The Great Pyramid rises at Giza, the tallest structure on earth for the next four thousand years.
Old Kingdom Egypt gathers tens of thousands of workers to raise a mountain of some 2.3 million stone blocks for pharaoh Khufu. The pyramid is less a tomb than a machine of eternity — and a demonstration that a state can plan, measure, feed and command on a scale never seen before.