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Histories, Book 2 (Euterpe), chapter 124
Herodotus, G. C. (translator) Macaulay, -429. Macaulay's translation (1890), at Lexundria.
Herodotus's account of Cheops: the temples closed, all Egyptians made to work in shifts of 100,000 men relieved every three months, ten years on the causeway and twenty on the pyramid.
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The oldest surviving account of how the pyramid was built.
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Herodotus, & Macaulay, G. C. (. (-429). Histories, Book 2 (Euterpe), chapter 124. Macaulay's translation (1890), at Lexundria. https://lexundria.com/hdt/2.124/mcly
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and G. C. (translator) Macaulay. “Histories, Book 2 (Euterpe), chapter 124.” Macaulay's translation (1890), at Lexundria (-429).