Gender: Male. Usage: Gaius, of Latin origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name. People having the name Gaius are in general originating from France, Greece, United Kingdom. Meaning:
Herodotus was told by his Egyptian guides that it took twenty years for a force of 100,000 oppressed slaves to build the pyramid (with another 10 years to build a stone causeway that connected it to a temple in the valley below). Stones were lifted into position by the use of immense machines.
Great Pyramid tombs unearth 'proof' workers were not slaves. 1  Egypt's leading archaeologist says 4,000-year-old burial plots with skeletons expose myth that builders were slaves. 2  Egypt's leading archaeologist says 4,000-year-old burial plots with skeletons expose myth that builders were slaves.