There are no bricks in the three great Giza pyramids.
The usual figure — about 2.5 million blocks — was disputed by someone who’d actually taken his time and measured and counted the numbers of visible blocks and number and thickness of the layers, and came up with a figure over 5 million (published in KMT).
Both figures were disputed by Zahi “Zowie” Hawass, who claimed 2.5 was wildly inflated and the number was something more like 500,000, and the average weight about one quarter of the generally accepted figure.
Jean-Pierre Houdin (see the keywords in this topic), an architect, figures that the very necessary ramp used in construction is still there, and internal to the Great Pyramid. I wonder if he’s ever looked at Khafre, the second largest at Giza?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpR7AKKN87E&list=PL9A112AC9F9727C8A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4O5LOCI68
I Think Jean-Pierre Houdin pretty well nails the construction process for the Pyramids. In addition to his internal ramp theory he found a corner cavity inside the great pyramid edge where a block and tackle tripod could manipulate and turn the blocks as the project built up. Remember they put the angled smooth face blocks at the outside on first.
The other thing he and Bob Brier, of Long Island University found, in what I think was a destroyed temple or some other kind of construction was evidence for the internal ramps having been a way to get material to the top of their projects.
isn’t it true that the pyramids used to be covered in smooth white granite with the very top capstone covered in gold?
That musta been awesome to see