# Herodotus -429: Histories, Book 2 (Euterpe), chapter 124

> Herodotus, G. C. (translator) Macaulay, -429. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The oldest surviving account of how the pyramid was built.

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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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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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