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There are actually 118 pyramids in Egypt, not just the three everyone talks about.

The ‘Great Pyramid’ is built from about 2.3 million stone blocks, weighing an average of 2.5 to 15 tonnes each. It’s estimated that the workers would have had to set a block every two and a half minutes.

The Great Pyramids now stand a full three miles south of the spot where they were originally built owing to the amount that the Earth’s surface has shifted in the last 4,500 years.

Even the builders had tombs. When an American woman was thrown from her horse in Giza, the stumbling block turned out to be the tip of an enormous builders’ necropolis, containing over 600 tombs.

Contrary to popular belief, not a single mummy has been found inside the pyramids. Mummies have mostly been found in the Valley of the Kings.

Debunking another popular myth, there are no hieroglyphics, or any form of writing, in the Great Pyramid.