It is found 5 miles into the desert from the town of Giza on the Nile River, and 15 miles southwest of the center of Cairo. ... Yet, it was unstable and the limestone blocks started to slip. ... As an alternative, Pharaoh Sneferu begun a third pyramid around a mile way. ... The pyramids were manufactured out of stone blocks, each weighing up no less than 2 tons. There are speculations suggesting that various men together moved each block over an incline that encompassed the structure as it rose, or that they moved each stone up long ramps that got higher and longer as the pyramid got higher....

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